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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 narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of one character
alliteration
limited omniscient
caesura
rhyme scheme
2. A short saying that expresses a general ruth or gives practical advice - usually about behavior and morality; similar to adage or aphorism
maxim
allegory
tone
existentialism
3. Occurs at the ends of lines of poetry
end rhyme
cadence
farce
epigraph
4. A figure of speech that uses the word 'like' or 'as' to compare two unlike things
onomatopoeia
simile
memoir
tone
5. Writing or speech that tells a story
omniscient
oxymoron
narrative
synecdoche
6. The repetition of final consonant sounds in words containing different vowels (ex: fresh cash - yard bird)
consonance
flash - forward
enjambment
parallelism
7. 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)
irony
trochaic (trochee)
synecdoche
magic realism
8. A quotation from another work that suggests the main idea - or theme - of the work at hand
epigraph
dimeter
heroic couplet
apostrophe
9. 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
hyperbole
malapropism
theme
archetype
10. A narrator who gives a faulty or distorted account of the events in a story; a child as a narrator might misinterpret someone's actions
unreliable narrator
flash - forward
aphorism
epilogue
11. Language used for descriptive effect rather than literal meaning and including at least one figure of speech (metaphor - simile - personification)
heroic couplet
conflict
figurative language
rhetoric
12. An interruption in the chronological sequence of a narrative to leap forward in time
connotation
flash - forward
narrative poetry
onomatopoeia
13. Two feet per line of poetry
oxymoron
slang
dimeter
monologue
14. The perspective from which a story is told
rhythm
hubris
monometer
point of view
15. A pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter that work together to make a point or express an idea
heroic couplet
mood
trimeter
end rhyme
16. The basic unit in the measurement of a line of metrical poetry; usually has one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllable;
regionalism
Foot
tone
verbal irony
17. Short narrative about an interesting event - often used to make a point
rhetorical question
anecdote
character
metonymy
18. A story intended to be performed before an audience by actors on a stage
epiphany
assonance
interior monologue
drama
19. A literary device in which the author interrupts the chronological order of a narrative to show something that happened in the past
flashback
parallelism
unreliable narrator
dialogue
20. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind
character
moral
imagery
connotation
21. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines that follow the same rhythmic pattern
interior monologue
couplet
pentameter
verbal irony
22. A type of narrative nonfiction recounting a period in the writer's life
Transcendentalism
repetition
memoir
synecdoche
23. 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
parallelism
verbal irony
rhyme scheme
epigraph
24. A metrical foot; // (stressed - stressed)
epiphany
trimeter
slant rhyme
spondaic (spondee)
25. The author's attitude toward his/her subject matter or audience; expressed through diction - punctuation - syntax - and figures of speech; (ex: humorous - serious - formal - distant - friendly)
tone
hyperbole
connotation
spondaic (spondee)
26. A narrative song or poem
epiphany
figure of speech
dactylic (dactyl)
ballad
27. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse
assonance
internal rhyme
situational irony
moral
28. The time and place in which the events of a literary work occur
simile
theme
setting
foreshadowing
29. The sequence of events in a short story - novel - or drama
plot
farce
aphorism
internal rhyme
30. 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)
spondaic (spondee)
epic hero
profanity
prologue
31. Eight feet per line of poetry
fiction
atmosphere
octameter
climax
32. The narrator knows everything about the characters and events and reveals details that even the characters themselves could not reveal
internal rhyme
omniscient
situational irony
synecdoche
33. The repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words
limited omniscient
ballad
rhyme
spondaic (spondee)
34. Six feet per line of poetry
cadence
dramatic irony
hexameter
epilogue
35. Five feet per line of poetry
pentameter
internal rhyme
meter
regionalism
36. The assignment/application of human characteristics to animals - inanimate object - or gods (ex: Sponge Bob - Bugs Bunny)
figure of speech
anthropomorphism
foreshadowing
couplet
37. A metrical foot; _/ (unstressed - stressed)
dramatic irony
figure of speech
iambic (iamb)
allegory
38. An occurrence is the opposite of what was expected
situational irony
blank verse
genre
drama
39. Type of diction; informal language used by a particular group among themselves
genre
Imagism
slang
heptameter (or septameter)
40. Occurs when words include sounds that are similar but not identical (ex: tone and gone)
blank verse
slant rhyme
colloquialisms
consonance
41. Verse that tells a story
regionalism
narrative poetry
archetype
heroic couplet
42. A figure of speech that uses exaggeration for emphasis
dramatic poetry
hyperbole
malapropism
Transcendentalism
43. The point of highest emotional intensity or suspense in a literary work
climax
trochaic (trochee)
dramatic poetry
aphorism
44. The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound it describes
genre
theme
archetype
onomatopoeia
45. Four feet per line of poetry
rhythm
consonance
tetrameter
cadence
46. Reversal of the usual word order for variety or emphasis (ex:A girl with a hat/In a dream I saw)
dialect
inversion
onomatopoeia
pentameter
47. A question to which no answer is expected or the answer is obvious
rhetorical question
soliloquy
parallelism
internal rhyme
48. Type of diction; expressions usually accepted in informal situations
aphorism
paradox
colloquialisms
oxymoron
49. A figure of speech in which opposite ideas are combined (ex: wise fool)
parallelism
oxymoron
trochaic (trochee)
fiction
50. Comparison of two things that are alike in some ways
refrain
unreliable narrator
analogy
plot