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CSET Literature - 2
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1. The mode of expression in a language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author. - Elements/techniques include diction - syntax - figurative language - imagery - selection of detail - sound effects - and tone.
Euphemism
Metaphor
Feminine ending
Style
2. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Literal Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Ballad
Novel
3. The images - sensory details - and figurative language of a literary work; words or phrases that appeal to the senses. The visual - auditory - or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work and the images that figurative language evokes.'Th
Hyperbole
Imagery
Sonnet
Parable
4. 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
Legends
Setting
Iambic Pentameter
Short Story
5. 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
Climax
Denotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Animal folk tales
6. A combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms. (Romeo's line 'feather of lead - bright smoke - cold fire - sick health' contains four examples of the device.)
Examples of folk tales
Symbol
Attitude
Oxymoron
7. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
Syllogism
Narrative techniques
Figurative Language
8. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Style
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Denotation
Literal
9. 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
Alliteration
Allusion
Personification
10. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Novel
Euphemism
Free Verse
Point of view
11. The arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of a work. - The most common principles are series (A - B - C - D - E) - contrast (A vs. B - C vs. D - E vs. A) and repetition (AA
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Ballad
Structure
12. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Tone
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Denouement/Resolution
13. The images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work. Imagery has several definitions - but the two that are paramount are the visual - auditory - or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work and
Setting
Biography
Imagery
novellas
14. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Literal Language
novellas
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
15. Encompasses works written in verse - perhaps with a meter and rhyme scheme - and uses written language in a pattern that is sung - chanted - or spoken to emphasize the relationships between words and ideas on the basis of sound as well as meaning. Th
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Hyperbole
Poetry
16. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Examples of folk tales
Attitude
Literal
Analyzing Poetry
17. A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud (Hamlet's 'To be - or not to be' and 'O! What a rogue and peasant slave am I') - A monologue also has a single speaker - but the monologuist speaks to others who do not inter
Irony
Figurative Language
Free Verse
Soliloquy
18. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Novel
Style
Theme
19. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Animal folk tales
Personification
Prose
Protagonist
20. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Diction
Poetry
Narrative techniques
Literal
21. 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?
Analyzing Poetry
Soliloquy
Syllogism
Connotation
22. Condensed story ranging in length from 2000-10000 words - most often with a singular/limited purpose - Made up of elements such as plot - character - setting - point of view - and theme - Often based on common dramatic structure
Personification
Literal
Hyperbole
Short Story
23. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Omniscient point of view
Legends
Oxymoron
Parable
24. 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.
Exposition
Jargon
Personification
Hyperbole
25. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Jargon
Symbol
Thesis
Parody
26. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Lyrical
Irony
Tragedy
Parody
27. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Alliteration
Examples of folk tales
Parable
Novel
28. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Allegory
Rhetorical techniques
Folk tales
29. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Parody
Rhetorical techniques
Hyperbole
Lyrical
30. The main thought expressed by a work.
Denouement/Resolution
Allegory
novellas
Theme
31. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Short Story
Satire
Poetry
32. 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
Myths
Feminine ending
Syllogism
Allusion
33. 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?
Figurative Language
Plot
Climax
34. Usually concrete objects or images that represent abstract ideas; something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else. For example - winter - darkness - and cold are real things - but in literature they are also likely to be used as
Literal
Novel
Symbol
Metaphor
35. 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
Figurative Language
Biography
Tone
Satire
36. The special language of a profession or group - The term usually has pejorative associations - with the implication that it is evasive - tedious - and unintelligible to outsiders.
Allegory
Jargon
novellas
Examples of folk tales
37. 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.
Thesis
Literal Language
Plot
Prose
38. A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work - especially to a well - known historical or literary event - person - or work. (In Hamlet - when Horatio says - 'ere the mightiest Julius fell -' the allusion is to the death of Juliu
Personification
Allusion
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Myths
39. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Flashback
3 major categories of poetry
Falling action
Imagery
40. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Structure
Personification
Feminine ending
Symbol
41. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Poetry
Point of view
Attitude
42. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denotation
Diction
3 major categories of poetry
Denouement/Resolution
43. 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
Novel
novellas
Autobiography
Short Story
44. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Figurative Language
Euphemism
Symbol
45. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Denotation
Animal folk tales
Metaphor
46. 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.
Tone
Rising action
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
47. A comparison of similar traits between dissimilar things in order to highlight a point of similarity. 'We scored a touchdown on the educational assistance plan.'
Analogy
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Biography
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
48. A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like as - like - or than. Ex: 'The black bat night.'
Connotation
Personification
Rising action
Metaphor
49. 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
Folk tales
Poetry
novellas
Irony
50. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Poetry
Animal folk tales
Point of view
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction