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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. A story that occurs within another story.






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






3. 'What is one supposed to do?'






4. The tortoise and the hare






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






6. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






9. 'She is a rock'






10. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






16. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






19. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






21. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






24. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






26. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






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






43. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






44. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






48. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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