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