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CSET Elements Of Prose
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Answer 27 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. Suspenseful; solves a puzzling crime; Poe's Purloined Letter; Sherlock Holmes by Doyle
Fairytale
Western
Mystery
Legend
2. Long - adventures and love affairs - idealized heroes: King Arthur
Romance
Prose
Fantasy
Parody
3. Humorous - imitation of another literary work - mocks and points out its weaknesses: Hamlet's love letters to Ophelia
Historical Fiction
Myth
Parody
Legend
4. All written and spoken expression w/o a regular rhythm and with a conscious literary purpose
Fairytale
Fiction
Prose
Autobiography
5. Traditional story based on fact but exaggerated: Paul Bunyan; Le Morte d'Arthur
Parable
Legend
Short Story
Folktale
6. Book - length narrative - usually has plot - character - point of view - theme
Fiction
Novel
fable
Horror
7. Account of another person's life: Sandburg's Abe Lincoln Grows Up
Tragedy
Autobiography
Western
Biography
8. A story surrounds another story or links several stories together: Heart of Darkness; Canterbury Tales; Turn of the Screw
Frame Story
Romance
Fairytale
Document
9. Short - humorous - teaches a lesson about a behavior usually with animal characters: Fox and Grapes; Boy who cried wolf
Essay
Short Story
Myth
fable
10. Expository - true - real events - people - objects - NOT imaginary
satire
Mystery
Essay
Nonfiction Prose
11. Unreal world - incredible characters or events: Lord of the Rings - Gulliver's Travels
satire
Romance
Myth
Fantasy
12. Type of folktale - supernatural - magical elements: Cinderella; Rapunzel
Fairytale
Fantasy
Fiction
Document
13. Main character is heroic but has a tragic flaw leading to his or her downfall: Hamlet
Prose
Historical Fiction
fable
Tragedy
14. A person's account of own life: Autobiography of Ben Franklin; Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Novel
Horror
satire
Autobiography
15. Novel; cowboys or frontiersmen of US: L'Amour's How the West was Won
Western
Myth
Fiction
Autobiography
16. Gods or heroes - theme expresses culture's ideology - found in every culture: Pygmalion - Pandora's box
Autobiography
Document
Mystery
Myth
17. Brief - usually has characters - setting - plot - point of view - theme: Gift of the Magi
Parody
Fantasy
Short Story
Frame Story
18. Brief - simple - illustrates a oral or religious lesson - no anthropomorphisms: Good Samaritan - Prodigal son
Prose
Fairytale
Parable
Essay
19. Narrative drawn from the author's imaginations - not fact or history
Fiction
Romance
Mystery
Autobiography
20. Fiction with a historical backdrop - includes historical people - places - or events: Vidal's Lincoln
Western
Myth
Historical Fiction
Mystery
21. Short - nonfiction - any topic - formal or informal: Self - reliance by Emerson
Short Story
Fiction
Prose
Essay
22. Short -- less than 100 pages - also Novelette: Of Mice and Men
Biography
Essay
Myth
Novella
23. Intended to scare or unsettle reader - may be fantasy or sci fi: Frankenstein; Dracula
Nonfiction Prose
Horror
Novella
Frame Story
24. Impact on society of current or future scientific or technological developments: Dune; Martian Chronicles.
Science Fiction
Novel
Nonfiction Prose
Biography
25. Letter - diary - journal - eloquent - expository - becomes part of recognized literature of the era: US Constitution; Anne Frank's diary
Autobiography
satire
Document
Novel
26. Anonymous traditional story - from a culture's oral tradition: Brer Rabbit; Arabian Nights
Folktale
Fairytale
Parody
Romance
27. Comments on social conventions or conditions - usually humorous: Huck Finn; Swift's Modest Proposal
Parable
Frame Story
satire
Prose