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CSET English Reading Understanding Text
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The dominant mood or feeling of a literary work
analogy
dialogue
hexameter
atmosphere
2. A concluding statement or section added to a work of literature
flash - forward
aphorism
onomatopoeia
epilogue
3. Type of diction; expressions usually accepted in informal situations
internal rhyme
colloquialisms
rhythm
heptameter (or septameter)
4. The time and place in which the events of a literary work occur
setting
soliloquy
interior monologue
dactylic (dactyl)
5. The continuation of a sentence from one line of a poem to another to complete meaning and grammatical structure (aka - a run - on)
dimeter
octameter
enjambment
trochaic (trochee)
6. The literal - or dictionary - meaning of a word
narrative
prologue
slang
denotation
7. A question to which no answer is expected or the answer is obvious
rhetorical question
dramatic poetry
stream of consciousness
unreliable narrator
8. Repetition of initial consonant sounds in words; used as musical device
dramatic poetry
tone
conflict
alliteration
9. Three feet per line of poetry
allusion
trimeter
enjambment
tetrameter
10. A literary technique that records a character's memories - opinions - and emotions
cadence
malapropism
interior monologue
limited omniscient
11. A person or force working against the protagonist - or central character - in a literary work
mood
cliche
antagonist
end rhyme
12. A sudden intuitive recognition of the essence or meaning of something
end rhyme
rhythm
genre
epiphany
13. Type of diction; language widely considered crude - disgusting - and offensive
symbol
vulgarity
pentameter
tone
14. The reader or the playgoer has information unknown to characters in the play
epiphany
protagonist
dramatic irony
mood
15. An introductory section of a play - speech - or other literary work
tetrameter
soliloquy
prologue
allusion
16. The central character in a literary work - around whom the action revolves
protagonist
monometer
imagery
blank verse
17. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; the word comes from the Greek word hybris meaning 'excessive pride'
cadence
hubris
ballad
pentameter
18. A metrical foot; // (stressed - stressed)
tetrameter
aphorism
spondaic (spondee)
dramatic poetry
19. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse
hyperbole
point of view
internal rhyme
narrative
20. A metrical foot; /_ _ (stressed - unstressed - unstressed)
Imagism
caesura
dactylic (dactyl)
iambic (iamb)
21. One foot per line of poetry
monometer
denotation
first person
point of view
22. The assignment/application of human characteristics to animals - inanimate object - or gods (ex: Sponge Bob - Bugs Bunny)
tetrameter
antagonist
anthropomorphism
regionalism
23. The person who tells a story; may be a part of the story or an outside observer
colloquialisms
narrator
figure of speech
assonance
24. A metrical foot; _/ (unstressed - stressed)
iambic (iamb)
unreliable narrator
Foot
denotation
25. A figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole or a whole is used for its parts (ex: All hands on deck)
tetrameter
onomatopoeia
synecdoche
dramatic poetry
26. The repetition of a line or phrase in a poem at regular intervals - usually at the end of each stanza
genre
blank verse
meter
refrain
27. An interruption in the chronological sequence of a narrative to leap forward in time
consonance
flash - forward
prologue
denotation
28. Seven feet per line of poetry
ballad
hexameter
heptameter (or septameter)
antagonist
29. A literary device in which the author interrupts the chronological order of a narrative to show something that happened in the past
flashback
rhyme
hubris
imagery
30. A literary style in which the writer combines realistic characters - events - situations - and dialogue with elements that are magical - supernatural - or fantastic
metonymy
rhetorical question
magic realism
parallelism
31. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else (ex: scarlet 'A' representing the sin of adultery)
memoir
couplet
profanity
symbol
32. Poetry or lines of dramatic verse written in iambic pentameter
protagonist
rhetorical question
blank verse
figure of speech
33. The central understanding about life as expressed in a work of literature; may be stated or expressed directly; usually implied or revealed gradually through events - dialogue - and outcome
end rhyme
theme
trochaic (trochee)
internal rhyme
34. Type of diction; a variety of language used by people in particular geographic area
anapestic (anapest)
denotation
rhyme
dialect
35. A figure of speech in which opposite ideas are combined (ex: wise fool)
spondaic (spondee)
oxymoron
hero
tone
36. Poetry in which characters are revealed through dialogue - monologue - and description
anthropomorphism
dramatic poetry
Foot
omniscient
37. A long speech by a character in a literary work
monologue
existentialism
profanity
antagonist
38. A specific kind of figurative language such as - simile - personification - metaphor - or hyperbole
Transcendentalism
figure of speech
monologue
spondaic (spondee)
39. The repetition of final consonant sounds in words containing different vowels (ex: fresh cash - yard bird)
omniscient
consonance
hexameter
foreshadowing
40. A feeling of curiosity or dread about what will happen next in a story
epitaph
inversion
suspense
dialect
41. A brief statement commemorating a dead person - often inscribed on a gravestone
verbal irony
theme
hexameter
epitaph
42. The methods - direct and indirect - used by a writer to reveal a character's personality
epigram
stream of consciousness
characterization
anecdote
43. The basic unit in the measurement of a line of metrical poetry; usually has one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllable;
farce
epilogue
monologue
Foot
44. The larger - than - life central character in an epic (a long narrative poem about events of crucial importance to the history of a culture/nation)
existentialism
farce
epic hero
onomatopoeia
45. Type of diction; specialized language used in a particular profession or content area
end rhyme
fiction
jargon
diction
46. A movement in early twentieth - century (1900s) poetry - which regarded the image as the essence of poetry
allegory
denouement
Imagism
drama
47. The narrator knows everything about the characters and events and reveals details that even the characters themselves could not reveal
omniscient
dimeter
inversion
anapestic (anapest)
48. Rhyming that occurs within a single line
dialogue
internal rhyme
diction
flashback
49. The pattern formed by end rhyme in a stanza or poem; indicated by the assignment of a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme
antagonist
internal rhyme
conflict
rhyme scheme
50. Five feet per line of poetry
Imagism
setting
pentameter
conflict