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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The way one acts - speaks - thinkgs - are dressed - etc.






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






3. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






6. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






10. Perspective from which the story is told.






11. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






19. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






30. The clouds danced in the sky.






31. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






34. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






48. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






50. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



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