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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Teaching students in today's face-paced world is difficult.






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






3. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






6. A story that occurs within another story.






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






8. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






10. 'What is one supposed to do?'






11. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






15. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






16. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






21. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






22. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






25. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






28. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






33. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






46. 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






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






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






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