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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. Author takes on an identity other than his own.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






8. 'She is a rock'






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






10. 'Sink or swim'






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






12. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






16. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






19. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






21. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






24. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






27. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






29. The tortoise and the hare






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






31. I love to sing - in the spring.






32. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






42. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






43. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






47. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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