A. Read through the chapter carefully and then work on this question from memory. When you’ve done the matching, check your answers and make corrections.

1.  ____ norms of utterance	a. “how a reader responds to the meaning of a text.”
2.  ____ understanding	b. “the range of meanings allowed by the words (verbal symbols) of a text.”
3.  ____ subject matter	c. “the experiences the author went through when writing the text.”
4.  ____ context	d. “the literary form being used by the author and the rules governing that form.”
5.  ____ norms of language	e. “the content or “stuff” talked about in a text.”
6.  ____ significance	f. “the verbal or written expression of a reader’s understanding of the author’s meaning.”
7.  ____ mental acts	g. “the correct mental grasp of the author’s meaning,”
8.  ____ implications	h. “the specific meaning that the author has given to a word, phrase . . . in a text.”
9.  ____ literary genre	i. “the willed meaning that an author gives to the literary materials surrounding his text.”
10. ____ interpretation	j. “the pattern of meaning the author willed to convey by the words . . . he used.”
11. ____ meaning	k. “those meanings in a text of which the author was unaware but nevertheless fall within the pattern of meaning he willed.”

B. Work through Stein’s “Exercise in Definition,” p.59. Number your page 1 through 16 and apply one of the terms to each example. Maybe “subject matter” describes the language of no. 1? What about the rest?