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The Story
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What did Belisa Crepusclario represent in the story?
Literature and Wisdom
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What is the reader response theory?
The author's intention for the readers interpretation of the literature, focusing on the readers experiences of the literature work.
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What is the theme of the story?
What is the theme of the story? • The use of literature and words are a significant aspect of the story because it’s represented as power. For example, in the story the colonel uses Belisa’s words and speech to gain peoples support and acknowledgement.
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What does El Mulato represent?
Courage
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Does reader response theory have a definite answer?
This theory is open to interpretation. There is no one “correct” answer, many different interpretations can be accepted as being “correct”.There are a variety of answers, responses and interpretations different people can obtain from a piece of literature.
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The title “Two Words” is portrayed as what literary concept/term within the story?
Anaphora (a repetition of words/ideas)
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What does the Colonel represent?
Power
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What is a strength of reader response theory?
What is a strength of reader response theory? • There are a variety of answers, responses and interpretations different people can obtain from a piece of literature • This theory is open to interpretation. There is no one “correct” answer, many different interpretations can be accepted as being “correct”. • Several other literary theories can be used to analyze the literature
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What is the name of the author of the story?
Isabel Allende
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What does literature represent not only within the story but in real life?
It represents power because 'knowledge is power'.
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What is a weakness of reader response theory?
• The literature can be interpreted in other views that were not intended by the author • Demonstrates a wide variety of ideas making the analysis of the theory become harder to define
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What happens to Belisa Crepusclario at the end of the story?
Belisa Crepusclario and the Colonel get married.