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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. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 'What is one supposed to do?'






9. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






15. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






16. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






27. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






31. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






34. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






39. The clouds danced in the sky.






40. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






43. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






47. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






48. 'She is a rock'






49. 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






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