Test your basic knowledge |

Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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






2. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






5. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






7. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






8. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






17. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






18. 'She is a rock'






19. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






44. A story that occurs within another story.






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






46. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






48. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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