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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The actual definition of the word. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.'Winter's end' is the end of winter.
Metaphor
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Literal Language
2. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Free Verse
Irony
Biography
Novel
3. The event or events that allow the protagonist to make his or her commitment to a course of action as the conflict intensifies; the complication of the plot.
Point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Literal
Rising action
4. Type of folk tale - Presented as entirely fictional pieces - Often begin with a formulaic opening line - such as 'Once upon a time...' or 'In a certain country there once lived...' - Recurring plots: supernatural adventures and mishaps of youngest da
Theme
Personification
Fairy tales
Lyrical
5. A technique in which the narrative moves to a time prior to that of the main story - Can make a story more interesting by giving it depth
Genre
Flashback
Figurative Language
Literal Language
6. Writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) - such as metaphors - similes - and irony. Uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning. 'The black bat night has fl
Figurative Language
Rhetorical techniques
Fairy tales
Animal folk tales
7. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Animal folk tales
Jargon
Plot
Parody
8. Type of folk tale - Narratives that often include creation stories and explain tribal beginnings - May incorporate supernatural beings or quasi - historical figures (e.g. King Arthur - Lady Godiva) - Told and retold as if they are based on facts; alw
Irony
Climax
Legends
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
9. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Flashback
Diction
3 major categories of poetry
Foreshadowing
10. The management of language for a specific effect - In a poem - the planned pacing of elements to acheive an effect. Example: the rhetorical strategy of most love poems is deployed to convince the loved one to return the speaker's love. By appealing t
Figurative Language
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Exposition
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
11. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Literal
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Euphemism
Metaphor
12. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Syllogism
Prose
Hyperbole
Novel
13. A figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ - characteristically praise for blame and blame for praise; the use of words to suggest the opposite of their intended meaning. A pattern of words that turns away from direct statement of i
Irony
Myths
Jargon
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
14. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Protagonist
Denotation
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Oxymoron
15. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Jargon
Parable
Personification
Structure
16. Normally the point of highest interest in a novel - short story - or play. As a technical term of dramatic composition - the climax is the place where the action reaches a turning point - where the rising action (the complication of the plot) ends -
Novel
Literal Language
Climax
Animal folk tales
17. A speaker's authors - or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject. (Hamlet's attitude toward Gertrude is a mixture of affection and revulsion - changing from one to the other within a single scene.)
Metaphor
Imagery
Foreshadowing
Attitude
18. The point of highest interest in a novel - short story - or play in terms of the conflict - the point with the most action - or the turning point for the protagonist.
Convention
Literal
Climax
Alliteration
19. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Literal
Analyzing Poetry
Lyrical
Metaphor
20. Deliberate exaggeration - overstatement. As a rule - hyperbole is self - conscious - w/o intention of being accepted literally. 'The strongest man in the world' and 'a diamond as big as the Ritz' are hyperbolic.
Iambic Pentameter
Rhetorical question
Irony
Hyperbole
21. Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule.- Usually comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correcting vice and folly.- Social criticism using wit. (Examples can be found in the novels of Charles Dickens - Mark Tw
Satire
Omniscient point of view
Simile
Attitude
22. What is the dramatic situation? What is the structure of the poem? What is the theme of the poem? Is the meaning clear? What is the tone of the poem? What are the important images and figures of speech?
Figurative Language
Feminine ending
Plot
Analyzing Poetry
23. A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them. - Begins with a major premise ('All tragedies end unhappily') followed by a minor premise ('Hamlet is a tragedy') and a conclusion ('Therefore - Hamlet ends unh
Literal
Imagery
Syllogism
Irony
24. Evoke events of a time long past - Generally concern the adventures and misadventures of gods - giants - heroes - nymphs - satyrs - and larger - than - life villains - all entities that reside outside of ordinary human existence yet are entwined in o
Climax
Falling action
Myths
Satire
25. 10 syllables in each line -5 pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables - The rhythm in each line sounds like: ba - BUM / ba - BUM / ba - BUM / ba - BUM / ba - BUM - Used (though not invented) by Shakespeare
Theme
Iambic Pentameter
Poetry
Denotation
26. Any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told - May be omniscient - limited to that of a single character - or limited to that of several characters - as well as other possibilities. - The teller may use the first person and/or th
Denotation
Climax
Free Verse
Point of view
27. Writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) - such as metaphors - similes - and irony. Figurative Language uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning. 'The bl
Oxymoron
Figurative Language
Short Story
Paradox
28. A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression.(A lover observing the literary love conventions cannot eat or sleep and grows pale and lean.)
Convention
Metaphor
Imagery
Setting
29. A literary form - such as an essay - novel - of poem - Within genres like the poem - there are also more specific genres based upon content (love poem - nature poem) or form (sonnet - ode).
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Genre
Connotation
30. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Paradox
Flashback
Personification
Prose
31. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Climax
Soliloquy
Paradox
Free Verse
32. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Sonnet
Jargon
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Alliteration
33. Think about: The parts/structural divisions of the poem and how they are related to each other - The punctuation - Repetitions (i.e. parallel syntax or the use of a simile in each sentence) - The logic of the poem. Does it ask questions and then answ
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Feminine ending
Prose
Allusion
34. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Hyperbole
Myths
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Personification
35. Can mean the mood or atmosphere of a work or a manner of speaking - but its most common use as a term of literary analysis is to denote the inferred attitude of an author - Author's attitude may be different from that of the speaker (usually the case
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Animal folk tales
36. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Parable
Paradox
Allegory
37. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Examples of folk tales
Rising action
38. The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning. - Described by adjectives - May change from chapter to chapter or even line to line - May be the result of allusion - diction - figurativ
Syllogism
Tone
Figurative Language
Poetry
39. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Short Story
Hyperbole
Ballad
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
40. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Folk tales
Flashback
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
41. The methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts - A general term that asks you to discuss the procedures used in the telling of a story. - Examples of techniques used are point of view - manipulation of
Myths
Biography
novellas
Narrative techniques
42. The background to a story; the physical location of a story - play - or novel. - The setting of a narrative will normally involve both time and place.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Rising action
Setting
Tragedy
43. A technique that uses clues to suggest events that have not yet occurred - Often used to create suspense and thus make a story more interesting
Foreshadowing
Climax
Irony
Prose
44. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Sonnet
45. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Examples of folk tales
Connotation
Imagery
Tragedy
46. Look for: - Important literal sensory objects and images? - The similes and metaphors of the poem. In each - exactly what is being compared to what? - A pattern in the images - such as a series of comparisons - Also be able to discriminate between th
Irony
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Rhetorical question
47. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
3 major categories of poetry
Allegory
Tone
Denouement/Resolution
48. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length - Styles include picaresque - epistolary - gothic - romantic - realist - and historical ren have mastered the mechanics of reading - between ages 9 and 12 - they are prepared to sustain the more d
Fairy tales
Rising action
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Novel
49. Be able to see the point of the poem - Define what the poem says and why. i.e. A love poem usually praises the loved one in the hope that the speaker's love will be returned.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Tone
Metaphor
Novel
50. Sometimes Shakespeare added an extra unstressed beat at the end of a line to emphasize a character's sense of contemplation (___________) - To BE - / or NOT / to BE: / that IS / the QUES- / - tion
Theme
Prose
Literal Language
Feminine ending