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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.






2. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






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






8. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






13. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






21. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






27. 'She is a rock'






28. 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






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






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






31. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






32. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






33. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. The tortoise and the hare






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






44. 'Sink or swim'






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






46. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






49. 'What is one supposed to do?'






50. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.