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Literature Reading Techniques
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'As I fell down the stairs headfirst - I heard her say - 'Look at that coordination!''
sarcasm
diction
repetition
narrator
2. While the student was inside the school learning - his mother was inside the home cleaning.
parallel scenes
malapropism
repetition
connotation
3. Kevin and Max in Freak the Mighty. One is the brain - the other is the braun.
allusion
simile
contrast
stream of consciousness
4. 'I could probably manage to survive on a salary of two million dollars per year.'
hyperbole
irony
understatement
diction
5. The way one acts - speaks - thinkgs - are dressed - etc.
tragic hero
speaker
simile
caricature
6. Perspective from which the story is told.
hyperbole
point of view
analogy
rhythm/meter
7. 'You should know what these terms mean - but more importantly - you should be able to recognize them in use within a given text.'
dialogue
rhythm/meter
didactic attitude/language
cliche
8. 'Sink or swim'
antithesis
interior monologue
stream of consciousness
gaps
9. A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.
stream of consciousness
caricature
irony
didactic attitude/language
10. Words spoken aloud by a character to himself - the audience - or another character.
pastoral
allusion
dialogue
hyperbole
11. The final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work
denouement
oxymoron
rhetorical questions
dialogue
12. A subordinate plot in a play - novel - or similar work.
subplots
irony
caricature
understatement
13. The clouds danced in the sky.
didactic attitude/language
irony
allegory
ersonification
14. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.
parody
paradox
metaphor
understatement
15. American Flag - hearts - wedding rings - etc.
genre
repetition
irony
symbolism
16. Teaching students in today's face-paced world is difficult.
realism
connotation
hyperbole
parallel structure
17. The doctor wrote me a subscription for some medication.
oxymoron
allegory
malapropism
realism
18. 'She is a rock'
metaphor
simile
dialogue
rhyme
19. I love to sing - in the spring.
allusion
point of view
symbolism
rhyme
20. I could smell the newly mowed lawn - hear the birds chirping - and see the budding leaves. Spring is here!
parallel scenes
pathos
imagery
simile
21. Tells the story. May be main or minor character - reliable or unreliable.
narrator
empathy
genre
pastoral
22. 'He loved swimming - hiking - and fishing all summer long.'
parallel structure
sarcasm
allegory
diction
23. Chetah is to fast - as is turtle is to slow
allusion
analogy
parody
antithesis
24. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'
subplots
analogy
paradox
dialogue
25. Iambic pentameter is used in sonnets - dactyl - trochee - etc.
diction
denouement
interior monologue
rhythm/meter
26. The horse and buggy trotted along the dusty - dirt road.
diction
persona (mask)
pastoral
rhetorical questions
27. Hamlet - Othello - Macbeth - Willie Loman - Ethan Frome - etc.
connotation
oxymoron
tragic hero
allegory
28. 'y'all' - 'ayah' - 'sho - there's ticks a-plenty' - 'thou hast'
ersonification
antithesis
diction
oxymoron
29. 'Milton! Thou shoulds't be living at this hour.'
gaps
syntax
denouement
apostrophe
30. A story that occurs within another story.
flash forward
pastoral
frame story
oxymoron
31. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'
genre
chiasmus
oxymoron
cliche
32. Interrupted action of a work with the action of previous events.
flashback
genre
analogy
imagery
33. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.
rhyme
gaps
allegory
antithesis
34. 'What is one supposed to do?'
rhetorical questions
metaphor
genre
hyperbole
35. Author takes on an identity other than his own.
persona (mask)
syntax
epiphany
repetition
36. 'Life is perfect - and all things are wonderful.'
pathos
simile
romance
speaker
37. The tortoise and the hare
allegory
tragic hero
stream of consciousness
frame story
38. 'house' verse 'home' --one has a more positive value than the other
connotation
repetition
chiasmus
parallel structure
39. Hints or clues given along the way as to how the plot will end.
flash forward
foreshadowing
syntax
speaker
40. A narrative technique that records a character's internal flow of thoughts - memories - and ideas
malapropism
interior monologue
connotation
allusion
41. I pity those people who lost his or her job during the recession.
foreshadowing
pathos
empathy
contrast
42. 'Bells - bells - bells...'
repetition
subplots
foreshadowing
stream of consciousness
43. 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
repetition
chiasmus
satire
caricature
44. The voice of the poem or literary piece (not necessarily the author)
speaker
rhetorical questions
rhythm/meter
analogy
45. 'That's nice.' 'Smart as a whip.' 'Smelling like a rose.'
cliche
understatement
diction
interior monologue
46. 'He met his Waterloo.'
allusion
irony
persona (mask)
syntax
47. As a fish takes to water - you will take to literary analysis.
gaps
allusion
simile
rhetorical questions
48. 'I understand that not everyone likes summer assignments - since I have summer work to do too.'
allusion
oxymoron
empathy
dialogue
49. Simple - complex - inverted order - etc. (arrangement of words in grammatical elements)
rhythm/meter
dialogue
satire
syntax
50. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.
apostrophe
rhetorical questions
repetition
genre