Running head: READING REFLECTION

Reading Reflection

Ashford University

Introduction to Literature

ENG 125

Submitted: 2011

Reading Reflection

The reader-response appeal to literature relies on the reader's ability to process the information being shared rather than the author or the text itself. With the reader-response, a person reads text and then relates to automatic explanations about life that are triggered moment by moment as they continue to read. The linguistics used triggers the reader's nervous system spontaneously in response to being perturbed by the text. This type of approach to reading allows people to imagine and be creative within them.

The reader-response approach with "the Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost offered a common understanding for situations in which I...