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