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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. I pity those people who lost his or her job during the recession.






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






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






4. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






5. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






6. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






7. A story that occurs within another story.






8. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






11. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






13. 'He met his Waterloo.'






14. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






17. 'She is a rock'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






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






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






42. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






44. Perspective from which the story is told.






45. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






49. 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






50. 'Sink or swim'






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



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