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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






4. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






14. 'She is a rock'






15. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






20. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 'Sink or swim'






30. Perspective from which the story is told.






31. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






33. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






37. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






40. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






42. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






45. 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






46. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






47. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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







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