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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






8. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






10. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






14. 'She is a rock'






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






16. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






19. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. The tortoise and the hare






31. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






33. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






36. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






38. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






41. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






44. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






45. 'What is one supposed to do?'






46. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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