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Literature Reading Techniques
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1. The horse and buggy trotted along the dusty - dirt road.
rhyme
pastoral
malapropism
interior monologue
2. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.
gaps
simile
frame story
contrast
3. 'That's nice.' 'Smart as a whip.' 'Smelling like a rose.'
cliche
allegory
dialogue
rhetorical questions
4. I love to sing - in the spring.
understatement
rhyme
repetition
parallel scenes
5. 'He loved swimming - hiking - and fishing all summer long.'
denouement
rhythm/meter
imagery
parallel structure
6. Interrupted action of a work with the action of future events.
flash forward
malapropism
parallel structure
tragic hero
7. Iambic pentameter is used in sonnets - dactyl - trochee - etc.
persona (mask)
rhythm/meter
irony
denouement
8. 'You should know what these terms mean - but more importantly - you should be able to recognize them in use within a given text.'
didactic attitude/language
simile
imagery
persona (mask)
9. Simple - complex - inverted order - etc. (arrangement of words in grammatical elements)
syntax
hyperbole
symbolism
romance
10. 'What is one supposed to do?'
interior monologue
rhetorical questions
stream of consciousness
syntax
11. Words spoken aloud by a character to himself - the audience - or another character.
diction
syntax
flash forward
dialogue
12. I pity those people who lost his or her job during the recession.
tragic hero
sarcasm
pathos
metaphor
13. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.
tragic hero
pathos
interior monologue
parody
14. The doctor wrote me a subscription for some medication.
parallel structure
analogy
malapropism
satire
15. 'y'all' - 'ayah' - 'sho - there's ticks a-plenty' - 'thou hast'
cliche
diction
antithesis
imagery
16. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'
oxymoron
flashback
narrator
sarcasm
17. The final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work
simile
denouement
malapropism
narrator
18. 'I understand that not everyone likes summer assignments - since I have summer work to do too.'
empathy
parallel scenes
didactic attitude/language
syntax
19. The voice of the poem or literary piece (not necessarily the author)
ersonification
rhythm/meter
speaker
imagery
20. 'Bells - bells - bells...'
cliche
paradox
stream of consciousness
repetition
21. Saying one thing and meaning another. When an outcome is unexpected by either a character or the audience.
irony
simile
point of view
persona (mask)
22. While the student was inside the school learning - his mother was inside the home cleaning.
diction
hyperbole
parallel scenes
frame story
23. 'Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.'
interior monologue
sarcasm
simile
chiasmus
24. 'As I fell down the stairs headfirst - I heard her say - 'Look at that coordination!''
irony
sarcasm
understatement
contrast
25. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.
allusion
epiphany
genre
satire
26. American Flag - hearts - wedding rings - etc.
speaker
pathos
symbolism
cliche
27. Kevin and Max in Freak the Mighty. One is the brain - the other is the braun.
simile
connotation
parody
contrast
28. Perspective from which the story is told.
metaphor
irony
point of view
flashback
29. I could smell the newly mowed lawn - hear the birds chirping - and see the budding leaves. Spring is here!
cliche
understatement
imagery
ersonification
30. The tortoise and the hare
simile
diction
dialogue
allegory
31. As a fish takes to water - you will take to literary analysis.
parody
simile
subplots
empathy
32. Teaching students in today's face-paced world is difficult.
antithesis
contrast
romance
realism
33. 'Milton! Thou shoulds't be living at this hour.'
flash forward
flashback
apostrophe
repetition
34. 'house' verse 'home' --one has a more positive value than the other
narrator
symbolism
genre
connotation
35. 'The shot heard 'round the world'
genre
hyperbole
metaphor
foreshadowing
36. The way one acts - speaks - thinkgs - are dressed - etc.
narrator
romance
persona (mask)
caricature
37. A story that occurs within another story.
frame story
chiasmus
pathos
metaphor
38. Hints or clues given along the way as to how the plot will end.
rhyme
foreshadowing
parallel scenes
symbolism
39. The clouds danced in the sky.
frame story
ersonification
apostrophe
syntax
40. 'I could probably manage to survive on a salary of two million dollars per year.'
point of view
denouement
caricature
understatement
41. Author takes on an identity other than his own.
analogy
flashback
empathy
persona (mask)
42. 'Life is perfect - and all things are wonderful.'
foreshadowing
metaphor
understatement
romance
43. Tells the story. May be main or minor character - reliable or unreliable.
narrator
dialogue
caricature
foreshadowing
44. 'He met his Waterloo.'
allusion
sarcasm
realism
stream of consciousness
45. A subordinate plot in a play - novel - or similar work.
understatement
subplots
chiasmus
rhyme
46. Hamlet - Othello - Macbeth - Willie Loman - Ethan Frome - etc.
realism
malapropism
rhetorical questions
tragic hero
47. A narrative technique that records a character's internal flow of thoughts - memories - and ideas
interior monologue
frame story
paradox
connotation
48. A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.
rhythm/meter
sarcasm
oxymoron
stream of consciousness
49. Chetah is to fast - as is turtle is to slow
analogy
flash forward
tragic hero
epiphany
50. 'I get it! You really do have to study!'
tragic hero
satire
epiphany
connotation
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