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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. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






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






14. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






16. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






20. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






23. 'She is a rock'






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






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






26. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






29. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






30. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






32. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






33. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






34. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






36. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






37. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






41. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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