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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. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






4. 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






5. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






6. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






11. A story that occurs within another story.






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






13. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






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






19. 'Sink or swim'






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






21. 'He met his Waterloo.'






22. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






23. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






24. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






33. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






36. 'She is a rock'






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






38. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'