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