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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. 'He met his Waterloo.'






2. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






6. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






7. 'Sink or swim'






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






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






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






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






12. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






18. 'She is a rock'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






28. The tortoise and the hare






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






30. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






31. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






32. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. A story that occurs within another story.






49. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






50. 'Bells - bells - bells...'