Question

1. When his students had difficulty understanding a passage in a novel, Mr. Kelly asked text based questions to direct them to go back and analyze the text. The students reread the passage to find evidence to support their answers. As they completed this task, these students were engaged in:

Answer 1

Answer:

close reading                      

Explanation:

Closer reading in literary criticism is the deliberate, continuous comprehension of a short section from a text. A close reading emphasizes the individual and the particular over the general, achieved by paying close attention to specific words, the grammar, the sequence in which the phrases reveal concepts, and the systematic frameworks. Thus we can conclude that the given case relates to close reading.