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