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






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






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






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






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






6. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






9. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






15. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






18. Perspective from which the story is told.






19. 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






20. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






23. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






31. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. I love to sing - in the spring.






42. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






44. 'She is a rock'






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






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






47. 'What is one supposed to do?'






48. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






50. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.