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






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






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






4. I love to sing - in the spring.






5. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






8. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






13. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






14. The clouds danced in the sky.






15. 'She is a rock'






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






17. A story that occurs within another story.






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






19. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






21. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






32. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






37. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






40. 'Sink or swim'






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






42. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






45. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






49. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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