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






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






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






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






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






6. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






8. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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






13. The clouds danced in the sky.






14. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






18. 'She is a rock'






19. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






24. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






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






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






30. A story that occurs within another story.






31. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






33. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






34. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






37. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






42. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






43. 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






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






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






46. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






50. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.