Test your basic knowledge |

Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. The tortoise and the hare






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






3. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






7. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






12. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






14. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






16. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






18. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






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






24. 'She is a rock'






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






26. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






29. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






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






42. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






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






47. A story that occurs within another story.






48. 'He met his Waterloo.'






49. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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