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






2. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






5. 'She is a rock'






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






7. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






26. 'What is one supposed to do?'






27. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






32. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






36. Perspective from which the story is told.






37. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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






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






43. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






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






49. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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