If a reader wants to evaluate a text, which is the best question to ask while reading it?
a. how many hours of research did the author put into writing this text?
b. what elements are used, and do they the author's purpose?
c. what elements do i find interesting, and do i care about the author's purpose?
d. how does this text affect me and what i want to say to the world?

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings