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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Scary Movie and Weird Al's songs.






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






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






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






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






13. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.






14. 'Sink or swim'






15. The clouds danced in the sky.






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






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






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






19. 'sweet sorrow' 'cold fire'






20. 'He met his Waterloo.'






21. A story that occurs within another story.






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






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






24. 'Life is perfect - and all things are wonderful.'






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






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






27. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.






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






29. The tortoise and the hare






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






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






32. 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






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






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






35. 'She is a rock'






36. 'What is one supposed to do?'






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






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






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






40. 'The shot heard 'round the world'






41. I love to sing - in the spring.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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