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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Setting
2. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Animal folk tales
Symbol
Hyperbole
Personification
3. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Jargon
Omniscient point of view
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
4. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Analogy
Falling action
Euphemism
Exposition
5. 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.
Allegory
Hyperbole
Rising action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
6. 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
Allegory
Tone
Prose
Foreshadowing
7. 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
Theme
Legends
Genre
Analogy
8. 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.
Genre
Personification
Hyperbole
Rhetorical question
9. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
3 major categories of poetry
Plot
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Examples of folk tales
10. 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
Flashback
Metaphor
Ballad
Plot
11. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Rising action
Folk tales
Alliteration
Climax
12. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Plot
Connotation
Myths
13. 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
Plot
Parody
Novel
Soliloquy
14. 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
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry
Allusion
Hyperbole
15. 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
Folk tales
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Prose
16. A figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ - characteristically praise for blame or blame for praise; a pattern of words that turns away from direct statement of its own obvious meaning. The term irony implies a discrepancy. In verb
Irony
Thesis
Flashback
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
17. 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 -
Denotation
Climax
Point of view
Autobiography
18. 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
Personification
Point of view
Novel
Narrative techniques
19. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Tragedy
Rhetorical question
Irony
Denotation
20. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Style
Denouement/Resolution
21. 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
Tone
Hyperbole
Feminine ending
Novel
22. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Jargon
Exposition
Parable
Style
23. 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
Tone
Soliloquy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
24. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Short Story
Denotation
25. 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.)
Denotation
Attitude
Short Story
Examples of folk tales
26. 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).
Genre
Prose
Symbol
Narrative techniques
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
Figurative Language
Sonnet
Personification
Satire
28. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
3 major categories of poetry
Syllogism
Attitude
Falling action
29. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Ballad
Rhetorical question
Oxymoron
Rhetorical techniques
30. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Sonnet
Literal
Fairy tales
31. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Myths
Folk tales
Denotation
32. An accurate history of a single person.
Thesis
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Plot
Biography
33. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Personification
Tragedy
Short Story
Diction
34. 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
3 major categories of poetry
Imagery
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Denouement/Resolution
35. 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
Jargon
Denotation
Satire
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
36. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Hyperbole
Theme
Denotation
37. A directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects usually with 'like -' 'as -' or 'than.' It is easier to recognize than a metaphor because the comparison is explicit. 'My love is like a fever.'
Simile
Diction
Biography
Irony
38. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Parable
Allusion
Flashback
39. 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
Folk tales
Prose
40. The vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know - see - and report whatever he or she chooses. The narrator is free to describe the thoughts of any of the characters - to skip about in time or place - or to speak directly to the reader.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Omniscient point of view
novellas
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
Omniscient point of view
Parody
Allegory
Foreshadowing
42. 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
Allegory
Imagery
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Autobiography
43. 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.)
Diction
Convention
Parody
3 major categories of poetry
44. 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
Hyperbole
Plot
Imagery
Irony
45. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Parable
Paradox
46. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Novel
47. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Examples of folk tales
Denotation
Euphemism
Protagonist
48. 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
Personification
Convention
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
49. 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?
Myths
Tragedy
Rising action
50. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Point of view
Genre
Rising action