1. If several people find different meanings in a story or poem, and the meanings make sense,

I think it makes the work confusing and less enjoyable for me.

I tend to think that makes the work more enjoyable for me.

I get irritated and turned off.

 
2. When I read literature I sometimes mark and annotate passages that seem significant.

Not necessarily

Always

Sometimes

3. If I think a poem or story is excellent, I like to read it again to understand it better.

Maybe, but not often.

Definitely yes.

No way.

 4. When I can see a theme or pattern in a work,

I can notice, but try to ignore, things that don't fit with it.

I enjoy being able to predict what will happen.

I enjoy being proven wrong when the work surprises me.

5. In order for me to enjoy a fiction or poem, I need identify with a familiar character or emotion to fully appreciate the work.

Always

Sometimes

Not necessarily

  6. On occasion the characters less focused on or only barely mentioned can be very interesting to think about.

Not for me; if they are not developed, that's the way it is supposed to be.

Only if it turns out they are important to the plot or main characters development.

Yes; sometimes they seem to be a key to more meaning than even the writer knew.

 7. I enjoy "reading beyond the ending" and "between the lines" of a work. I like to fill in the empty spaces of a work in my imagination.

On occasion I will do this.

Sometimes I can imagine writing in these spaces myself.

I like to be told what to imagine and to focus on that.

8. When I find well written or impressive images, language or style, I

I want to read it aloud, and preferably to share it with someone else.

I actually have read it aloud to someone else and copied it into a notebook in order to keep it, as well.

I tend not to pay attention to things I read in that way.

9. When I read, I enjoy noticing patterns of action, language or images.

Patterns help me understand it as a work of art.

Patterns might escape my notice or even bore me.

Patterns could be helpful in figuring out what it means.

10. When I read, I like to formulate questions such as "Why did the author write it that way and not another?"

I usually do not question why a text is the way it is.

I might ask about something that seems strange in a text.

I like thinking in terms of the decisions of the author and what his or her choices might have been.