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






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






3. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






6. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






7. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






10. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






11. 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






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






13. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






17. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






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






23. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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 love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






37. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. The tortoise and the hare






45. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






47. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






50. 'She is a rock'