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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. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






19. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






20. The tortoise and the hare






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






22. 'Sink or swim'






23. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






26. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






27. 'She is a rock'






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






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






30. 'What is one supposed to do?'






31. A story that occurs within another story.






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






33. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






37. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






41. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






44. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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