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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An accurate history of a single person.
Diction
Literal Language
Poetry
Biography
2. 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.)
Imagery
Oxymoron
Animal folk tales
Sonnet
3. 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
Omniscient point of view
Fairy tales
Metaphor
Legends
4. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Folk tales
Parody
Simile
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
5. 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
Denotation
Analyzing Poetry
Figurative Language
Novel
6. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Climax
Folk tales
Connotation
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
7. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Rising action
Thesis
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Exposition
8. 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.
Euphemism
Poetry
Ballad
Setting
9. 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.'
Satire
Climax
Figurative Language
Analogy
10. 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
Foreshadowing
Climax
Irony
11. 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
Connotation
Allusion
Figurative Language
Literal
12. 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
Satire
Tone
Examples of folk tales
Folk tales
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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Paradox
Satire
Imagery
14. 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
Symbol
Satire
Rhetorical techniques
Sonnet
15. A statement that seems to be self - contradicting but - in fact - is true. (The figure in a Donne sonnet that concludes 'I shall never be chaste except you ravish me' is a good example of the device.)
Sonnet
Diction
Paradox
Prose
16. 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
Symbol
Legends
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
17. 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
Paradox
Myths
Point of view
Climax
18. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
Figurative Language
Climax
Exposition
19. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Literal Language
Poetry
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
3 major categories of poetry
20. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Rising action
Free Verse
Connotation
Protagonist
21. 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
Metaphor
Parable
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Genre
22. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Climax
Metaphor
Parable
Folk tales
23. 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
Examples of folk tales
Short Story
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Figurative Language
24. 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
Short Story
Satire
Poetry
Theme
25. 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
Thesis
Imagery
Exposition
Attitude
26. 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
Allusion
Animal folk tales
Allegory
Simile
27. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Analogy
Denouement/Resolution
Euphemism
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
28. 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.
Exposition
Feminine ending
Jargon
Autobiography
29. 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
Plot
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Folk tales
30. 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?
Paradox
Analogy
Ballad
31. 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
Symbol
Irony
Genre
Diction
32. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Autobiography
Prose
Soliloquy
Allegory
33. 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
Rising action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Structure
Irony
34. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Hyperbole
Imagery
Metaphor
35. 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
Fairy tales
Legends
Iambic Pentameter
Ballad
36. WHO is the speaker? Or who are the speakers? Male or female? WHERE is s/he? - WHEN does this poem take place? - WHAT are the circumstances?
Biography
novellas
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Structure
37. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Novel
Syllogism
Autobiography
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
38. 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?
Examples of folk tales
Novel
Diction
Analyzing Poetry
39. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Free Verse
Narrative techniques
Rising action
40. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Theme
Attitude
Personification
3 major categories of poetry
41. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Parable
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Euphemism
42. 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.
Climax
Symbol
Foreshadowing
Fairy tales
43. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Omniscient point of view
Setting
Sonnet
Genre
44. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Denotation
Analyzing Poetry
Plot
45. 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 -
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
novellas
Setting
Climax
46. 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?
Tragedy
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Diction
47. 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.'
Legends
Narrative techniques
Simile
Irony
48. 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
Analogy
Flashback
Feminine ending
Convention
49. A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term 'as -' 'like -' or 'than.' - 'The black bat night' rather than
Metaphor
Parable
Syllogism
Point of view
50. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Denouement/Resolution
Rhetorical question
Parable