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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. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






3. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






4. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






6. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






7. 'She is a rock'






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






16. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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. Author takes on an identity other than his own.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






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






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






34. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






38. The tortoise and the hare






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






40. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






42. A story that occurs within another story.






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






44. 'He met his Waterloo.'






45. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






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