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