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