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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A narrative technique that records a character's internal flow of thoughts - memories - and ideas






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






3. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






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






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






9. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






10. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






12. 'She is a rock'






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






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






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






16. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






19. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






21. 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






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






23. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






25. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






26. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






39. 'Sink or swim'






40. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






43. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






48. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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