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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. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






6. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






10. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






12. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






14. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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






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






32. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






33. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






35. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






39. The tortoise and the hare






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






41. 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






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






43. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






45. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






46. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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