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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. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






5. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






6. The tortoise and the hare






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






8. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






10. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






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






16. 'What is one supposed to do?'






17. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






20. 'Sink or swim'






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






22. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. I love to sing - in the spring.






42. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






43. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






46. 'She is a rock'






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






48. 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






49. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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