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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
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1. Author takes on an identity other than his own.






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






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






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






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






6. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






9. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






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






13. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 'She is a rock'






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






24. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






27. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






30. 'Sink or swim'






31. I love to sing - in the spring.






32. 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






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






34. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






36. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






42. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






46. The tortoise and the hare






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






48. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






50. Perspective from which the story is told.







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