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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. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






5. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






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






11. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






17. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






21. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






22. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






24. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






33. 'She is a rock'






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






35. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






45. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






46. The clouds danced in the sky.






47. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






48. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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