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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. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






3. 'What is one supposed to do?'






4. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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






20. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






22. A story that occurs within another story.






23. The clouds danced in the sky.






24. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






26. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






30. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






37. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






50. I love to sing - in the spring.