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






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






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






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






5. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






16. I love to sing - in the spring.






17. 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






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






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






20. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






23. 'She is a rock'






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






25. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






26. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






27. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






28. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






30. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






34. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






36. The tortoise and the hare






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






38. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






41. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






43. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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