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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. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






2. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






17. 'What is one supposed to do?'






18. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






21. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






22. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






27. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






29. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






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






35. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






38. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






39. 'She is a rock'






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






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






42. Perspective from which the story is told.






43. 'He met his Waterloo.'






44. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






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