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






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






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






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






5. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






7. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






9. I love to sing - in the spring.






10. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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






15. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






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






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






21. The clouds danced in the sky.






22. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






31. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






39. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






43. 'He met his Waterloo.'






44. A story that occurs within another story.






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






46. 'She is a rock'






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






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






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






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