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