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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. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






3. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






16. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






17. A story that occurs within another story.






18. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






21. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






24. 'She is a rock'






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






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






27. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






31. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






34. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






36. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






38. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






39. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






49. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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