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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
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1. Chetah is to fast - as is turtle is to slow






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






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






4. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






15. A story that occurs within another story.






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






17. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






20. 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






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






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






23. 'She is a rock'






24. The tortoise and the hare






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






26. I love to sing - in the spring.






27. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






39. The clouds danced in the sky.






40. 'What is one supposed to do?'






41. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






50. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'







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