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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.






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






3. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






19. 'What is one supposed to do?'






20. The tortoise and the hare






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






22. A story that occurs within another story.






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






24. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






26. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






27. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






28. 'Sink or swim'






29. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






31. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






32. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






36. 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






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






38. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






44. 'She is a rock'






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






46. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






48. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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