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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. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






3. Interrupted action of a work with the action of previous events.






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






5. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






7. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






9. A story that occurs within another story.






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






11. 'Life is perfect - and all things are wonderful.'






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






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






14. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






17. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






20. 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






21. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






26. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






28. The tortoise and the hare






29. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






31. 'She is a rock'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






41. 'As I fell down the stairs headfirst - I heard her say - 'Look at that coordination!''






42. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






47. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






48. Kevin and Max in Freak the Mighty. One is the brain - the other is the braun.






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






50. I love to sing - in the spring.