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






2. 'What is one supposed to do?'






3. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






4. 'He met his Waterloo.'






5. I love to sing - in the spring.






6. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






10. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






11. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






14. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






15. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






17. 'She is a rock'






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






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






20. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






25. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






28. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






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






47. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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