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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The horse and buggy trotted along the dusty - dirt road.






2. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






4. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






10. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






13. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






16. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






20. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






25. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






28. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






30. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






35. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






37. A story that occurs within another story.






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






39. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






44. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






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






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







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