What are literary skills?

Here are some descriptions of specific literary skills:

• Visualization. This is an effective reading technique that enhances reading comprehension. It employs the use of visualizing through your mind's eye what you are reading to attempt to gain supreme understanding.

  This can be with complex concepts, fictional characters and storylines, math equations, and many other forms of reading information.

• Close Reading and Big Picture Reading. These skills refer to strategies of reading that involve granular detail for the former and a bird eyes view approach to reading for the latter. When employed in conjunction these two techniques can help with comprehension.

• Making Predictions. This is a skill used in reading comprehension to attempt to figure out upcoming events in a particular reading. You can utilize this strategy with a hands-on approach by creating columned lists of predictions.

• Inferring. Inferring is done when a conclusion is logically assumed through the utilization of observations, facts, evidence, and reasoning.

• Paraphrasing. This is the ability to recreate a selection of text in your own writing that accurately portrays the information and any underlying messaging while not plagiarizing the source text. Paraphrasing is particularly useful in the academic setting.