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






2. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






7. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






10. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






12. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






18. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






22. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






25. The tortoise and the hare






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






27. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






29. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






31. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






33. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






34. 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






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






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






37. 'He met his Waterloo.'






38. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 'She is a rock'






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






49. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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