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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. Perspective from which the story is told.






2. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






7. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






9. 'She is a rock'






10. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






31. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






32. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






35. 'Sink or swim'






36. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






38. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






39. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






44. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






49. The tortoise and the hare






50. 'Bells - bells - bells...'