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






2. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






5. 'She is a rock'






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






7. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






10. A story that occurs within another story.






11. 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






12. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






15. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






29. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






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






35. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






36. 'What is one supposed to do?'






37. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






40. 'Sink or swim'






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






42. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






45. I love to sing - in the spring.






46. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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