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






2. Perspective from which the story is told.






3. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






8. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






11. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






13. A story that occurs within another story.






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






15. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






25. 'She is a rock'






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






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






28. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






32. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






33. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






37. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






41. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






44. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






45. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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