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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Interrupted action of a work with the action of previous events.






2. While the student was inside the school learning - his mother was inside the home cleaning.






3. Chetah is to fast - as is turtle is to slow






4. As a fish takes to water - you will take to literary analysis.






5. Teaching students in today's face-paced world is difficult.






6. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






7. 'That's nice.' 'Smart as a whip.' 'Smelling like a rose.'






8. The way one acts - speaks - thinkgs - are dressed - etc.






9. 'house' verse 'home' --one has a more positive value than the other






10. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






11. Author takes on an identity other than his own.






12. The horse and buggy trotted along the dusty - dirt road.






13. I love to sing - in the spring.






14. A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way. It doesn't simply abuse (as in invective) or get personal (as in sarcasm). It targets groups or large concepts rather than individuals






15. 'I could probably manage to survive on a salary of two million dollars per year.'






16. A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.






17. 'He met his Waterloo.'






18. 'I understand that not everyone likes summer assignments - since I have summer work to do too.'






19. 'Milton! Thou shoulds't be living at this hour.'






20. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






21. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






22. The voice of the poem or literary piece (not necessarily the author)






23. Saying one thing and meaning another. When an outcome is unexpected by either a character or the audience.






24. Hints or clues given along the way as to how the plot will end.






25. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






26. 'What is one supposed to do?'






27. Hamlet - Othello - Macbeth - Willie Loman - Ethan Frome - etc.






28. Tells the story. May be main or minor character - reliable or unreliable.






29. 'I get it! You really do have to study!'






30. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






31. A subordinate plot in a play - novel - or similar work.






32. Words spoken aloud by a character to himself - the audience - or another character.






33. 'He loved swimming - hiking - and fishing all summer long.'






34. American Flag - hearts - wedding rings - etc.






35. The clouds danced in the sky.






36. The final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work






37. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






38. Interrupted action of a work with the action of future events.






39. A story that occurs within another story.






40. The tortoise and the hare






41. 'Sink or swim'






42. 'Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.'






43. The doctor wrote me a subscription for some medication.






44. I could smell the newly mowed lawn - hear the birds chirping - and see the budding leaves. Spring is here!






45. I pity those people who lost his or her job during the recession.






46. Simple - complex - inverted order - etc. (arrangement of words in grammatical elements)






47. A narrative technique that records a character's internal flow of thoughts - memories - and ideas






48. 'y'all' - 'ayah' - 'sho - there's ticks a-plenty' - 'thou hast'






49. 'You should know what these terms mean - but more importantly - you should be able to recognize them in use within a given text.'






50. Iambic pentameter is used in sonnets - dactyl - trochee - etc.