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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The way one acts - speaks - thinkgs - are dressed - etc.






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






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






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






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






6. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






9. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






10. 'She is a rock'






11. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






23. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






28. The clouds danced in the sky.






29. 'He met his Waterloo.'






30. 'Sink or swim'






31. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






33. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






35. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






36. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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







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