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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. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






4. Perspective from which the story is told.






5. A story that occurs within another story.






6. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






10. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






16. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






17. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






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






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






23. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






25. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






28. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






30. 'He met his Waterloo.'






31. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






46. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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