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






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






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






4. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






7. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






11. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






13. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






14. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






15. The tortoise and the hare






16. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






17. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 'She is a rock'






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






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






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






30. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






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






36. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






37. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






39. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






40. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






44. 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






45. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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