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






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






3. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






6. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






14. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






23. The tortoise and the hare






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






25. 'She is a rock'






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






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






28. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






34. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






36. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






39. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






41. 'He met his Waterloo.'






42. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






44. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






47. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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