Name: Shawn Patrick H.

Perido

Date: November 8 2022

Section: 1A4

INTERACTIVE ENGLISH
Preliminary Examination

Direction: Answer each item using two sentences. (10 points each) Reminder: Any form of
intellectual dishonesty—copying a classmate’s answer or plagiarism—will result in a score of 0.

1. According to the glossary of Landmark College, “active reading can be described as

sustained inquiry, or as a reader having a dialogue with the author.” Explain this
definition.
Answer:
Active reading can be described as sustained inquiry, or as a reader having a dialogue
with the author because the reader understands what he/she read. Active reading is a
reader having a dialogue with the author because he/she have deeper engagement with
the text.

2. Give one difference between active reading and passive reading and explain it.
Answer:
The difference between active and passive reading is active reading is reading with
questions in mind, and passive reading is reading without questions in mind. Active
reading is much better than passive reading because it involves a deeper engagement with
the text.

3. Why is annotating a form of active reading? How can it help in understand a text?
Answer:
Annotating is form of active reading because this is one of the strategies in active
reading. It can easily understand the text because you listing down the unfamiliar words
and looking for its definition.

4. One of the principles of close reading is that no details are present in a text by “accident.”
What does this principle mean?
Answer:
It’s means that no details that present in a text is just an accident. It’s intended by the
author.

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5. During our discussion, we talked about how close reading can reveal the author’s
unconscious prejudices. Give an example of an unconscious prejudice and how close
reading can expose it.
Answer:
The author can reveal unconscious prejudices or bias because of over using what the
author wants. Example in gender, the author is over using or exaggerated about what the
author likes in gender.

6. What is the importance of a textual evidence?

Answer:
Textual evidence is important because it can support your ideas. Without textual
evidence it’s hard to support your ideas and not easily be believable by the readers.

7. Why is it essential to read the text first without annotating?

Answer:
It’s essential to read the text before annotating to have a little information to the text.
And it may help you to easily find the unfamiliar words for you.

8. What do you think are the advantage and disadvantage of interpreting a text based on its
history and its author’s life?
Answer:
The advantage for me is sometimes the situation of the author’s life is same with my
experienced so I can easily understand it. The disadvantage is sometimes I can’t relate or
I can’t understand the text because it’s base on history or authors life.

9. What is the significance of numbering each line or sentence in a text?

Answer:
It’s easily to you to identify what line can support your ideas. And numbering each line
or sentence in a text helps you to identify what number of line or sentence you are
reading.

10. What for you is the most difficult part of annotating and analyzing the text in your
activity? On the other hand, which process did you enjoy the most?
Answer:
The most difficult for me is analysing and assumptions because it’s hard to me to
translate my assumptions to English. And the most enjoying process for me is looking for
unfamiliar word and looking for its definition.

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