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






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






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






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






5. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






7. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






18. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






21. 'She is a rock'






22. A story that occurs within another story.






23. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






26. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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






31. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






44. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






47. 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






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






49. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






50. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.