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






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






3. 'She is a rock'






4. A story that occurs within another story.






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






6. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






9. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






11. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






12. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






23. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






24. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






33. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






35. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






38. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






40. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






41. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Perspective from which the story is told.