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






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






3. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






6. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






8. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






11. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






16. 'Sink or swim'






17. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






20. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






22. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






32. The tortoise and the hare






33. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






36. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






39. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






45. 'She is a rock'






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






47. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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