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






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






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






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






5. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






10. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






11. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






16. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






20. 'She is a rock'






21. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






25. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






26. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






32. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






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






38. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. 'What is one supposed to do?'






48. I love to sing - in the spring.






49. Perspective from which the story is told.






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