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Literature Reading Techniques
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Literature Reading Techniques
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1. I pity those people who lost his or her job during the recession.

2. I love to sing - in the spring.

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

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

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

6. The voice of the poem or literary piece (not necessarily the author)

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

8. A story that occurs within another story.

9. Things left completely unsaid; unknowns.

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

11. Words spoken aloud by a character to himself - the audience - or another character.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20. The clouds danced in the sky.

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

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

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

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

25. Romance - historical - bildungsroman - etc.