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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
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1. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






3. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






7. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






8. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






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






14. 'Sink or swim'






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






16. 'She is a rock'






17. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






19. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Perspective from which the story is told.






30. A story that occurs within another story.






31. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






35. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






41. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






43. 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






44. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






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






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



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