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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. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






3. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






7. 'What is one supposed to do?'






8. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






10. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






13. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






17. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






20. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






21. I love to sing - in the spring.






22. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






24. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






36. 'She is a rock'






37. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






43. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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