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






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






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






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






5. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






16. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






22. A story that occurs within another story.






23. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






28. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






30. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






33. 'She is a rock'






34. 'What is one supposed to do?'






35. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






37. The clouds danced in the sky.






38. The tortoise and the hare






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






40. 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






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






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






43. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






45. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






47. 'Sink or swim'






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






49. I love to sing - in the spring.






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