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Literature Reading Techniques
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Subject
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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.
narrator
pathos
repetition
cliche
2. 'What is one supposed to do?'
rhetorical questions
realism
apostrophe
irony
3. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.
contrast
tragic hero
imagery
parody
4. 'He met his Waterloo.'
allusion
apostrophe
irony
hyperbole
5. I love to sing - in the spring.
metaphor
connotation
dialogue
rhyme
6. 'Sink or swim'
antithesis
pastoral
parody
contrast
7. 'y'all' - 'ayah' - 'sho - there's ticks a-plenty' - 'thou hast'
diction
denouement
romance
cliche
8. The doctor wrote me a subscription for some medication.
speaker
empathy
malapropism
didactic attitude/language
9. Hamlet - Othello - Macbeth - Willie Loman - Ethan Frome - etc.
tragic hero
understatement
hyperbole
malapropism
10. 'Bells - bells - bells...'
simile
satire
realism
repetition
11. Perspective from which the story is told.
point of view
apostrophe
epiphany
allegory
12. 'Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.'
dialogue
metaphor
chiasmus
repetition
13. 'Life is perfect - and all things are wonderful.'
tragic hero
romance
imagery
denouement
14. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.
ersonification
genre
romance
rhetorical questions
15. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'
allegory
paradox
rhyme
parallel structure
16. Saying one thing and meaning another. When an outcome is unexpected by either a character or the audience.
metaphor
imagery
irony
analogy
17. 'She is a rock'
chiasmus
parallel scenes
metaphor
diction
18. 'You should know what these terms mean - but more importantly - you should be able to recognize them in use within a given text.'
foreshadowing
irony
didactic attitude/language
pastoral
19. Simple - complex - inverted order - etc. (arrangement of words in grammatical elements)
syntax
rhythm/meter
parallel scenes
metaphor
20. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'
oxymoron
connotation
pathos
narrator
21. The voice of the poem or literary piece (not necessarily the author)
analogy
speaker
subplots
repetition
22. 'As I fell down the stairs headfirst - I heard her say - 'Look at that coordination!''
dialogue
malapropism
stream of consciousness
sarcasm
23. The way one acts - speaks - thinkgs - are dressed - etc.
flash forward
understatement
caricature
romance
24. Teaching students in today's face-paced world is difficult.
realism
understatement
parallel scenes
antithesis
25. A story that occurs within another story.
simile
imagery
frame story
ersonification
26. 'I understand that not everyone likes summer assignments - since I have summer work to do too.'
dialogue
rhetorical questions
empathy
hyperbole
27. Author takes on an identity other than his own.
persona (mask)
syntax
irony
gaps
28. The tortoise and the hare
tragic hero
imagery
ersonification
allegory
29. Interrupted action of a work with the action of future events.
foreshadowing
rhyme
sarcasm
flash forward
30. Chetah is to fast - as is turtle is to slow
gaps
metaphor
rhythm/meter
analogy
31. While the student was inside the school learning - his mother was inside the home cleaning.
apostrophe
foreshadowing
parallel scenes
genre
32. 'Milton! Thou shoulds't be living at this hour.'
apostrophe
didactic attitude/language
narrator
realism
33. Tells the story. May be main or minor character - reliable or unreliable.
narrator
cliche
contrast
allegory
34. 'house' verse 'home' --one has a more positive value than the other
flash forward
paradox
connotation
hyperbole
35. As a fish takes to water - you will take to literary analysis.
ersonification
simile
analogy
allusion
36. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.
gaps
subplots
genre
sarcasm
37. 'I could probably manage to survive on a salary of two million dollars per year.'
hyperbole
understatement
contrast
apostrophe
38. Words spoken aloud by a character to himself - the audience - or another character.
satire
simile
dialogue
gaps
39. A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.
malapropism
persona (mask)
stream of consciousness
analogy
40. 'I get it! You really do have to study!'
imagery
epiphany
genre
paradox
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
satire
subplots
point of view
foreshadowing
42. A subordinate plot in a play - novel - or similar work.
stream of consciousness
analogy
subplots
epiphany
43. 'That's nice.' 'Smart as a whip.' 'Smelling like a rose.'
analogy
cliche
foreshadowing
diction
44. The horse and buggy trotted along the dusty - dirt road.
caricature
genre
romance
pastoral
45. Hints or clues given along the way as to how the plot will end.
foreshadowing
rhythm/meter
connotation
apostrophe
46. American Flag - hearts - wedding rings - etc.
rhyme
metaphor
symbolism
rhythm/meter
47. The clouds danced in the sky.
imagery
ersonification
interior monologue
parody
48. Kevin and Max in Freak the Mighty. One is the brain - the other is the braun.
understatement
contrast
chiasmus
allusion
49. Interrupted action of a work with the action of previous events.
sarcasm
chiasmus
flashback
pastoral
50. I could smell the newly mowed lawn - hear the birds chirping - and see the budding leaves. Spring is here!
ersonification
rhetorical questions
genre
imagery