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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. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






3. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






6. 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






7. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






18. 'What is one supposed to do?'






19. 'Sink or swim'






20. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






23. A story that occurs within another story.






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






25. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






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






31. 'She is a rock'






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






33. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






37. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






38. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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