What does preconceived bias mean? and how does it impact your reading?​

bias refers to a. writer's prejudice for one side of a particular issue. A reader can identify bias by looking carefully at the. following elements of a text: • Denotative and Connotative Meaning: the denotative meaning of a word is its literal dictionary.

Explanation:

A Secret Kept,” is an interesting novel written by Tatiana DeRosnay that reveals how our pre conceived thinking affects our attitudes toward people. The story explores a son’s and daughter’s search for information about their mother, who died when they were quite young. The writing is interspersed with letters written to the mother by her lover. In a discussion with several neighbors who had read this novel, they all admitted that they were quite surprised to discover that the love letters were sent by a woman. Despite other clues in the story, these readers assumed that the writer was a man. This novel is parallel to an experience I had on the evening previous to my writing this blog.

the underlined phrase is an example of : understatment

. a function is a relation in which each input has only one output. in the relation , y is a function of x, because for each input x (1, 2, 3, or 0), there is only one output y. x is not a function of y, because the input y = 3 has multiple outputs: x = 1 and x = 2.