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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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 subordinate plot in a play - novel - or similar work.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 'Sink or swim'






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






9. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






10. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






11. The tortoise and the hare






12. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






22. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






26. 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






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






28. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






30. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






32. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






35. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






37. 'He met his Waterloo.'






38. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






40. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. A story that occurs within another story.






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