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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
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1. A subordinate plot in a play - novel - or similar work.






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






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






4. A story that occurs within another story.






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






6. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






9. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






15. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






19. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






22. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






27. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






29. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






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






35. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






38. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






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






44. 'What is one supposed to do?'






45. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






46. The clouds danced in the sky.






47. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






49. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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







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