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