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






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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






12. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






17. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






20. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






21. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






29. 'Sink or swim'






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






31. 'She is a rock'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






41. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






43. I love to sing - in the spring.






44. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






45. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






48. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






49. The tortoise and the hare






50. A story that occurs within another story.