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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






22. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






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






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






28. 'He met his Waterloo.'






29. 'She is a rock'






30. 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






31. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






36. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






39. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






40. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






44. The clouds danced in the sky.






45. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






46. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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