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