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Literature Reading Techniques
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Subject
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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 love to sing - in the spring.
didactic attitude/language
dialogue
rhyme
apostrophe
2. The voice of the poem or literary piece (not necessarily the author)
frame story
speaker
syntax
subplots
3. 'He loved swimming - hiking - and fishing all summer long.'
analogy
interior monologue
stream of consciousness
parallel structure
4. 'You should know what these terms mean - but more importantly - you should be able to recognize them in use within a given text.'
subplots
denouement
didactic attitude/language
understatement
5. A subordinate plot in a play - novel - or similar work.
irony
flash forward
allegory
subplots
6. 'Milton! Thou shoulds't be living at this hour.'
imagery
apostrophe
paradox
syntax
7. Hints or clues given along the way as to how the plot will end.
rhyme
foreshadowing
satire
syntax
8. While the student was inside the school learning - his mother was inside the home cleaning.
frame story
parallel scenes
stream of consciousness
analogy
9. A story that occurs within another story.
frame story
paradox
understatement
diction
10. The doctor wrote me a subscription for some medication.
stream of consciousness
malapropism
analogy
apostrophe
11. Simple - complex - inverted order - etc. (arrangement of words in grammatical elements)
pathos
didactic attitude/language
syntax
stream of consciousness
12. Saying one thing and meaning another. When an outcome is unexpected by either a character or the audience.
malapropism
pastoral
paradox
irony
13. 'house' verse 'home' --one has a more positive value than the other
chiasmus
rhyme
tragic hero
connotation
14. 'He met his Waterloo.'
pathos
allusion
rhythm/meter
cliche
15. As a fish takes to water - you will take to literary analysis.
antithesis
frame story
narrator
simile
16. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.
parody
sarcasm
understatement
flashback
17. Tells the story. May be main or minor character - reliable or unreliable.
dialogue
rhyme
frame story
narrator
18. I could smell the newly mowed lawn - hear the birds chirping - and see the budding leaves. Spring is here!
imagery
antithesis
parody
understatement
19. 'As I fell down the stairs headfirst - I heard her say - 'Look at that coordination!''
malapropism
realism
sarcasm
analogy
20. 'Sink or swim'
pathos
antithesis
syntax
flashback
21. I pity those people who lost his or her job during the recession.
didactic attitude/language
parody
subplots
pathos
22. 'Life is perfect - and all things are wonderful.'
oxymoron
parody
frame story
romance
23. 'She is a rock'
metaphor
rhetorical questions
caricature
pathos
24. Interrupted action of a work with the action of previous events.
gaps
persona (mask)
flashback
pathos
25. American Flag - hearts - wedding rings - etc.
parallel structure
diction
symbolism
satire
26. The clouds danced in the sky.
ersonification
pastoral
genre
didactic attitude/language
27. Iambic pentameter is used in sonnets - dactyl - trochee - etc.
genre
sarcasm
denouement
rhythm/meter
28. Chetah is to fast - as is turtle is to slow
cliche
hyperbole
analogy
connotation
29. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'
oxymoron
narrator
empathy
parody
30. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.
persona (mask)
gaps
caricature
pastoral
31. The way one acts - speaks - thinkgs - are dressed - etc.
rhythm/meter
connotation
caricature
ersonification
32. 'Bells - bells - bells...'
simile
malapropism
repetition
frame story
33. 'The shot heard 'round the world'
analogy
hyperbole
rhyme
paradox
34. Perspective from which the story is told.
repetition
understatement
narrator
point of view
35. Interrupted action of a work with the action of future events.
rhythm/meter
metaphor
flash forward
flashback
36. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.
genre
contrast
flashback
analogy
37. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'
paradox
flashback
rhetorical questions
symbolism
38. The horse and buggy trotted along the dusty - dirt road.
rhyme
contrast
pastoral
chiasmus
39. 'That's nice.' 'Smart as a whip.' 'Smelling like a rose.'
allusion
apostrophe
cliche
epiphany
40. Author takes on an identity other than his own.
imagery
flash forward
rhythm/meter
persona (mask)
41. 'What is one supposed to do?'
imagery
rhetorical questions
rhyme
rhythm/meter
42. The final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work
denouement
parody
dialogue
irony
43. 'Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.'
allegory
chiasmus
parody
cliche
44. Teaching students in today's face-paced world is difficult.
paradox
antithesis
realism
epiphany
45. Words spoken aloud by a character to himself - the audience - or another character.
irony
understatement
dialogue
interior monologue
46. 'I understand that not everyone likes summer assignments - since I have summer work to do too.'
point of view
empathy
parallel scenes
oxymoron
47. Hamlet - Othello - Macbeth - Willie Loman - Ethan Frome - etc.
subplots
didactic attitude/language
tragic hero
allusion
48. 'I could probably manage to survive on a salary of two million dollars per year.'
allusion
contrast
metaphor
understatement
49. 'I get it! You really do have to study!'
subplots
epiphany
denouement
didactic attitude/language
50. 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
persona (mask)
satire
oxymoron
malapropism