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