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Literature Reading Techniques

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






9. 'He met his Waterloo.'






10. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






13. A story that occurs within another story.






14. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






17. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






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






23. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






24. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






27. 'She is a rock'






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






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






30. 'What is one supposed to do?'






31. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






36. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






37. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






40. The tortoise and the hare






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






42. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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







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