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