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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. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






3. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






5. 'She is a rock'






6. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






12. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






15. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






17. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






19. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






24. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






26. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






28. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






32. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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. American Flag - hearts - wedding rings - etc.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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