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






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






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






4. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






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






7. 'She is a rock'






8. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






17. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






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






22. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






25. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






29. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






31. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






34. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






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






39. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






42. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






45. 'Sink or swim'






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






47. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






48. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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