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






3. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






15. 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






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






17. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






22. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






24. The clouds danced in the sky.






25. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






29. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






30. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






31. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






36. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






46. A story that occurs within another story.






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






48. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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