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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. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






6. The tortoise and the hare






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






8. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






11. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






15. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






19. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






22. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 'She is a rock'






33. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






35. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






37. I love to sing - in the spring.






38. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






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






44. Perspective from which the story is told.






45. 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






46. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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