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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. The final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work






2. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






5. 'Sink or swim'






6. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






10. 'He met his Waterloo.'






11. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






24. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






27. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






29. 'She is a rock'






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






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






32. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






43. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






45. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






48. The tortoise and the hare






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






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