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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. The doctor wrote me a subscription for some medication.






2. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






4. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






8. 'She is a rock'






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






10. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






12. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






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






18. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






21. I love to sing - in the spring.






22. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






24. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






27. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






29. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. A story that occurs within another story.






46. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






49. 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






50. 'Bells - bells - bells...'