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