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