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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. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






2. 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






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






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






5. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






6. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






7. 'He met his Waterloo.'






8. I love to sing - in the spring.






9. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






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






15. 'She is a rock'






16. 'What is one supposed to do?'






17. The tortoise and the hare






18. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






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






23. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






27. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. A story that occurs within another story.






45. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






49. Perspective from which the story is told.






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