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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'Life is perfect - and all things are wonderful.'






2. 'He met his Waterloo.'






3. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






5. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






8. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






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






14. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






15. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






18. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






23. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 'She is a rock'






34. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






43. 'Sink or swim'






44. 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






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






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






47. The clouds danced in the sky.






48. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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







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