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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 love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






4. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






8. 'Sink or swim'






9. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






11. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






12. 'She is a rock'






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






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






15. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






18. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






19. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






22. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






34. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






43. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






45. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






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






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