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