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






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






3. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






5. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






10. 'Sink or swim'






11. The clouds danced in the sky.






12. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






16. 'She is a rock'






17. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






19. The tortoise and the hare






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






21. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






25. 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






26. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






29. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






31. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






33. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






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






46. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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