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