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






2. 'Sink or swim'






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






4. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






7. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






17. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






23. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






25. 'He met his Waterloo.'






26. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






28. 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






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






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






31. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






32. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






37. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






38. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






42. 'She is a rock'






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






44. A story that occurs within another story.






45. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






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