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CSET Literature - 2
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1. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Denotation
Irony
Imagery
Lyrical
2. 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.
Setting
Oxymoron
Climax
Feminine ending
3. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Denotation
Novel
Tragedy
Feminine ending
4. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Foreshadowing
Protagonist
Paradox
Feminine ending
5. 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.'
novellas
Foreshadowing
Analogy
Imagery
6. 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
Metaphor
Lyrical
Narrative techniques
Flashback
7. 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
Style
Irony
Narrative techniques
Allusion
8. 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.
Rising action
Syllogism
Convention
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
9. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Tone
Exposition
Convention
Theme
10. An author's account of his or her own life.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Autobiography
Lyrical
Prose
11. 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.'
Parody
Iambic Pentameter
Simile
Metaphor
12. 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
Figurative Language
Symbol
Biography
Denotation
13. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Fairy tales
Diction
Analyzing Poetry
Omniscient point of view
14. 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
Novel
Satire
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
15. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Tone
Lyrical
Hyperbole
Short Story
16. 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
Imagery
Animal folk tales
Connotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
17. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Rising action
Thesis
Convention
Literal
18. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Prose
Climax
Irony
Plot
19. 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
Jargon
Syllogism
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Personification
20. 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
Allusion
Figurative Language
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Tone
21. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Rhetorical question
Metaphor
Poetry
22. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
Poetry
Rhetorical question
Metaphor
23. 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.
Jargon
Free Verse
Ballad
Parody
24. 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?
Soliloquy
Short Story
Legends
Analyzing Poetry
25. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Point of view
Examples of folk tales
Animal folk tales
Exposition
26. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Alliteration
Personification
Sonnet
Fairy tales
27. 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
Imagery
Parable
Denotation
28. 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
Biography
Legends
Novel
Omniscient point of view
29. Understand the meaning of all the words in the poem - especially words you think you know but which don't seem to fit in the context of the poem. - Understand the grammar of the poem. - Beware of skewed word order (i.e. a direct object before the sub
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Parable
3 major categories of poetry
Analogy
30. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Parody
31. 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
Metaphor
Iambic Pentameter
Style
Structure
32. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
3 major categories of poetry
Parable
Metaphor
Rising action
33. 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.
Hyperbole
Jargon
Alliteration
Examples of folk tales
34. 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).
Irony
Setting
Tragedy
Genre
35. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Point of view
Denouement/Resolution
Short Story
Flashback
36. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Denotation
Figurative Language
Legends
37. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Jargon
Analogy
Imagery
Thesis
38. 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
Alliteration
Lyrical
Imagery
Attitude
39. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Poetry
Euphemism
Irony
Soliloquy
40. 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
Tone
Symbol
Paradox
Syllogism
41. A story in which people - things - and events have another meaning. (Orwell's Animal Farm) - Explaining meaning other than the words that are spoken - Conveys meaning through use of symbolic figures - actions - and symbolic representation - Extended
Allegory
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Rhetorical techniques
Hyperbole
42. Prose narratives that follow traditional storylines that arise from oral traditions in histories - As old as language - Adapt from culture to culture - Original author is never known - Arise through the process of recombining traditional elements (mo
Free Verse
Folk tales
Novel
Irony
43. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Analyzing Poetry
Jargon
Alliteration
Narrative techniques
44. 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.)
Attitude
Tragedy
Personification
Parody
45. 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
Short Story
Analogy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Rhetorical question
46. 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
Hyperbole
Denotation
Figurative Language
Point of view
47. The main thought expressed by a work.
Structure
Theme
Rhetorical question
Parody
48. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Short Story
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Diction
49. 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 -
Analyzing Poetry
Structure
Climax
Lyrical
50. 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.
Literal Language
Denotation
Plot
Free Verse
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