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






2. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






3. 'She is a rock'






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






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






6. 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






7. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






11. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






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






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






17. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






22. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






23. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






35. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






36. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






38. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






41. 'Sink or swim'






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






43. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






46. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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