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






2. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






6. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






7. The tortoise and the hare






8. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






12. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






13. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






17. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






18. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






22. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






26. 'She is a rock'






27. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






29. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






33. 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






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






35. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






38. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






41. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






42. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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