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






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






3. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






4. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






8. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






12. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






23. Perspective from which the story is told.






24. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






28. 'She is a rock'






29. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






31. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






35. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






37. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






38. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






44. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






47. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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