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Chapter 16: Oral Interpretation

Activity Lesson Plan

Introduction
Students have learned about the history of oral interpretation as well as its modern day uses. In this lesson they will review effective oral interpretation techniques.

Lesson Description
Students will use vocabulary words pertaining to oral interpretation to complete a crossword puzzle.

Instructional Objective
Students will reinforce their knowledge of oral interpretation and review techniques used in effective oral presentations.

Student Web Activity Answers

omniscient: a type of narration where the narrator is all-knowing

anthology: a collection of passages from literature

auditory: related to or experienced through hearing

mood: the emotional tone created or expressed in a work

offstage focus: a technique in which readers envision the scene out in the audience persona: the fictional speaker of the work to be interpreted

scene setting: focusing the scene described on an imaginary stage in front of the reader

meter: a measure of the rhythm in a line of poetry

rhapsode: wandering minstrel in ancient Greece

theme: the central idea of a literary work

motif: a dominant idea or central theme

introspective: reflectively looking inward

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