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






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






3. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






6. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






8. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






13. Perspective from which the story is told.






14. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






15. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






16. 'She is a rock'






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






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






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






20. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






30. I love to sing - in the spring.






31. 'Sink or swim'






32. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






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






38. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






41. 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






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






43. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






46. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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