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






2. The tortoise and the hare






3. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






5. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






10. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






12. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






15. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






17. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






32. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






41. 'She is a rock'






42. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






46. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






50. 'Sink or swim'