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






2. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






5. 'She is a rock'






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






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






8. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






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






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






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






12. 'Bells - bells - bells...'






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






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






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






16. 'He met his Waterloo.'






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






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






19. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






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






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






23. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






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






28. Perspective from which the story is told.






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






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






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






32. 'Sink or swim'






33. I love to sing - in the spring.






34. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






37. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






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






39. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






40. 'Much madness is divinest sense.'






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






42. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






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






46. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






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






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