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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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1. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






6. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






7. 'What is one supposed to do?'






8. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






13. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






21. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






25. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






29. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Perspective from which the story is told.






37. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






41. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






44. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






46. 'She is a rock'






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






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






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






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