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