Which term means trying to find the meaning of a passage/text?

• A. Novel
• B. Interpretation
• C. Legend
• D. Myth

Answer: (B)

Interpreting a passage means figuring out its meaning beyond the surface words—the ideas, messages, and implications the author is conveying through tone, context, and evidence in the text. This is the act of making sense of what is read and explaining what the text means as a whole.

The term that best captures this process is interpretation. It describes how you analyze a text to understand its deeper meanings, themes, and purposes—why the author chose particular words, how evidence supports a point, and what the passage suggests about larger ideas.

A novel is a long fictional story, a legend is a traditional story often tied to culture or history, and a myth is a traditional story that explains natural phenomena or human behavior. None of these terms names the act of uncovering or explaining meaning in a text; they refer to kinds of stories.