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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
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1. A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.






2. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






7. I love to sing - in the spring.






8. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






11. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






12. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






16. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






20. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






23. 'What is one supposed to do?'






24. The clouds danced in the sky.






25. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






29. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 'She is a rock'






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






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






39. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






41. The tortoise and the hare






42. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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