What procedure is the most effective when analyzing a difficult piece of writing? Reading a text once all the way through and then thinking about what it means.

Asking friends what they think

Waiting until the next classroom session to ask the teacher.

Reading the piece more than once

reading the piece more than once

The answer is reading the piece more than once.

Explanation:

It says in the section "re-reading is a powerful tool used by expert readers."

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as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.