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Literature Reading Techniques
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 'house' verse 'home' --one has a more positive value than the other
paradox
connotation
frame story
realism
2. The voice of the poem or literary piece (not necessarily the author)
pastoral
speaker
repetition
malapropism
3. 'Bells - bells - bells...'
repetition
epiphany
tragic hero
caricature
4. 'That's nice.' 'Smart as a whip.' 'Smelling like a rose.'
diction
cliche
parallel scenes
connotation
5. Perspective from which the story is told.
narrator
romance
diction
point of view
6. The doctor wrote me a subscription for some medication.
didactic attitude/language
apostrophe
malapropism
persona (mask)
7. The final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work
hyperbole
denouement
cliche
understatement
8. Author takes on an identity other than his own.
persona (mask)
didactic attitude/language
rhyme
irony
9. 'I understand that not everyone likes summer assignments - since I have summer work to do too.'
stream of consciousness
repetition
empathy
epiphany
10. 'Sink or swim'
repetition
antithesis
frame story
diction
11. The clouds danced in the sky.
contrast
diction
ersonification
frame story
12. 'What is one supposed to do?'
epiphany
rhetorical questions
pastoral
understatement
13. 'I get it! You really do have to study!'
epiphany
realism
rhythm/meter
oxymoron
14. Hamlet - Othello - Macbeth - Willie Loman - Ethan Frome - etc.
interior monologue
realism
tragic hero
apostrophe
15. Interrupted action of a work with the action of future events.
rhythm/meter
flash forward
ersonification
flashback
16. 'She is a rock'
oxymoron
stream of consciousness
metaphor
symbolism
17. 'The shot heard 'round the world'
hyperbole
connotation
flash forward
parallel structure
18. I pity those people who lost his or her job during the recession.
tragic hero
interior monologue
pathos
contrast
19. The tortoise and the hare
allegory
connotation
rhyme
parallel structure
20. 'Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.'
parallel scenes
chiasmus
paradox
didactic attitude/language
21. A story that occurs within another story.
allegory
genre
paradox
frame story
22. A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.
stream of consciousness
foreshadowing
repetition
analogy
23. 'You should know what these terms mean - but more importantly - you should be able to recognize them in use within a given text.'
didactic attitude/language
apostrophe
rhyme
frame story
24. Kevin and Max in Freak the Mighty. One is the brain - the other is the braun.
parody
genre
allusion
contrast
25. 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
satire
parallel scenes
caricature
parallel structure
26. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.
contrast
parody
hyperbole
frame story
27. I could smell the newly mowed lawn - hear the birds chirping - and see the budding leaves. Spring is here!
imagery
interior monologue
connotation
rhetorical questions
28. Interrupted action of a work with the action of previous events.
parallel scenes
empathy
rhythm/meter
flashback
29. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.
contrast
hyperbole
flashback
gaps
30. While the student was inside the school learning - his mother was inside the home cleaning.
parallel scenes
hyperbole
narrator
persona (mask)
31. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.
contrast
denouement
gaps
genre
32. 'Milton! Thou shoulds't be living at this hour.'
apostrophe
diction
repetition
interior monologue
33. I love to sing - in the spring.
pastoral
antithesis
rhyme
speaker
34. 'As I fell down the stairs headfirst - I heard her say - 'Look at that coordination!''
romance
chiasmus
understatement
sarcasm
35. Tells the story. May be main or minor character - reliable or unreliable.
narrator
simile
foreshadowing
symbolism
36. 'I could probably manage to survive on a salary of two million dollars per year.'
satire
rhetorical questions
understatement
cliche
37. 'y'all' - 'ayah' - 'sho - there's ticks a-plenty' - 'thou hast'
sarcasm
diction
pathos
persona (mask)
38. Hints or clues given along the way as to how the plot will end.
realism
foreshadowing
syntax
parallel structure
39. 'He loved swimming - hiking - and fishing all summer long.'
parallel structure
foreshadowing
stream of consciousness
analogy
40. 'He met his Waterloo.'
malapropism
antithesis
understatement
allusion
41. The way one acts - speaks - thinkgs - are dressed - etc.
ersonification
satire
foreshadowing
caricature
42. Iambic pentameter is used in sonnets - dactyl - trochee - etc.
tragic hero
rhythm/meter
parody
foreshadowing
43. As a fish takes to water - you will take to literary analysis.
parallel structure
ersonification
simile
flash forward
44. A narrative technique that records a character's internal flow of thoughts - memories - and ideas
malapropism
interior monologue
metaphor
simile
45. Chetah is to fast - as is turtle is to slow
didactic attitude/language
imagery
analogy
hyperbole
46. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'
allusion
oxymoron
malapropism
parody
47. Words spoken aloud by a character to himself - the audience - or another character.
parallel scenes
dialogue
point of view
stream of consciousness
48. Simple - complex - inverted order - etc. (arrangement of words in grammatical elements)
pathos
syntax
sarcasm
rhythm/meter
49. Teaching students in today's face-paced world is difficult.
realism
caricature
dialogue
tragic hero
50. Saying one thing and meaning another. When an outcome is unexpected by either a character or the audience.
satire
imagery
rhythm/meter
irony