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






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






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






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






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






6. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






7. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






10. 'She is a rock'






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






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






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






14. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






17. The tortoise and the hare






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






19. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






22. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






25. 'He met his Waterloo.'






26. A story that occurs within another story.






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






28. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






29. 'Sink or swim'






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






31. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






34. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






38. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






44. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






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






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






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