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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 get it! You really do have to study!'






2. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






5. The tortoise and the hare






6. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






11. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






17. 'Sink or swim'






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






19. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






22. I love to sing - in the spring.






23. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






25. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






27. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






30. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






33. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






48. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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