Reading strategies
The set od strategies we use before we start reading a literary text.
What is pre-reading strategies.
a feeling of worry or unhappiness that you have because you have done something wrong, such as causing harm to another person
What is guilt?
The age of Anil.
What is 7?
The emotion that stops Anil from going out to pee.
What is the fear?
The title of the short story.
What is Anil?
The set of strategies we use during reading.
What is while-reading strategies?
Extremely dark
What is pitch-dark?
Amma is Anil's
What is mother?
The emotion Anil feels while watching the hanging.
What is horror?
The story is taking place in the part of world called
What is Asia?
The set of strategies we use when finished reading.
What is after-reading strategies?
a feeling of happiness that something bad has not happened or has ended
What is relief?
Ragunathan is
Who is Anil's father?
The emotion the headman's mother and Shanti feel when seeing the body.
What is sorrow?
The most important event in the story.
What is the hanging (of the woman)?
The name of the reading strategy in which you create a movie in your head.
What is visualise?
to appear by coming out of something or out from behind something
The most important person in the village.
Who is the headman?
The emotion Anil is trying to catch a glimpse of in Marimuthu's eyes?
What is guilt?
Anil is being sent off to hide the truth about
What is Marimuthu's wife's death.
Reading strategy you use to analyse the main character.
What is graphic organiser?
unsuccessfully
What is in vain?
Marimuthu is
Who is the headman's younger brother?
Due to the incident, the headman feels this emoution on behalf of his family.
What is embarrassment/humiliation?
The three insects we encounter on the first two pages of the story.
What are mosquitoes, crickets and a fly.