I'm dumb myself, but i want to ask, how do you interpret quotes? A quote I find hard interpreting is "Literature is the question minus the answer" I’m not asking anyone actually interpret the quote, but how do you interpret quotes? I’m bad at English (and I’m Not esl.. O..0) so, what are your skills in interpreting quotes?
2007-12-03 09:29:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
The way to improve at interpreting quotes is simply to read a lot. Don't say you are dumb. It is difficult to interpret quotes without the clues given by the context from which the quote was taken. The more you read, the more familiar you become with succinct or clever ways of expressing things. When something you read strikes you as particularly true, underline it. Make it a personal quote. Famous quotes are just lines that speak like that to a large number of people. When you recognize the qualities that make a line quotable, you will begin to understand how to interpret it.
2007-12-03 09:40:12 · answer #1 · answered by Barbara K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To interpret a quote you need, first of all, to try to see the point of the person giving it. You may get a quote like a proverb where someone is giving advice by using a simile. For example let's say you are trying to solve a problem which, no matter how much you try, you just don't seem to be able to solve. Someone else may look and say "You can't see the wood for the trees.". In other words you are letting things get in the way of seeing the solution. (Ie the 'trees' are in the way of the 'wood' so you're seeing the trees without identifying the 'wood' that you're looking for.)
Many eminent people use quotes to get a point across. For example when it was reported erroneously that the author Mark Twain had died his reply was 'Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.' thus providing a witty quote that is still remembered today over 100 years after his death but, at the same time, dispelling the rumours that he had died.
2007-12-03 10:08:16 · answer #2 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth is what truth says truth is. Here is me rewording the quote: What truth says is true is true. The truth changes as time goes on and an example of that is the Earth being flat. The quot is kind of-ish wrong because the truth is always there. It's just a matter of finding it and then proving a previous truth wrong. This happens all the time like the time people thought the Sun orbits around the Earth . The answer was always there, but you just had to find the truth. In this way you can say that what truth stands before you is true because it presents itself so. But as time changes it may not be the truth at all. So your quote is basically saying that although the truth is there it can disguise itself as a lie. This shakes the foundations of the very concept of truth and makes our very existence meaningless. If anything your quote will not inspire people to change the world, but wait for the truth to turn in to a lie.
2016-04-07 06:27:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how i interpret a quote is
i take all the words and i see if i can use them in a sentence if i can then i at least know that i know all the words
then i i ask myself
in what situation would i say this?
if you can answer that question then you basically know what the quote means
2007-12-03 09:41:13 · answer #4 · answered by yah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋