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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.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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 get it! You really do have to study!'






2. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






5. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






7. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






9. 'She is a rock'






10. The tortoise and the hare






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






22. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






25. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






29. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






31. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






34. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






37. Perspective from which the story is told.






38. The clouds danced in the sky.






39. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






40. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 'Bells - bells - bells...'