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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. 'She is a rock'






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






3. 'Sink or swim'






4. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. The tortoise and the hare






12. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






16. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






20. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






24. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






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






30. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






36. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






38. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






39. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






40. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






42. 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






43. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






47. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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