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






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






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






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






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






6. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






7. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






8. Perspective from which the story is told.






9. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






13. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






17. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






20. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






21. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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






26. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






28. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






31. The clouds danced in the sky.






32. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 'The shot heard 'round the world'