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CSET Literature - 2
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1. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Literal Language
Diction
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
2. 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
Plot
Examples of folk tales
Parable
Legends
3. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Paradox
Theme
Rhetorical question
Short Story
4. 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).
Soliloquy
Genre
Euphemism
Narrative techniques
5. 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
Imagery
Theme
Figurative Language
Personification
6. 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
Convention
Falling action
Feminine ending
Iambic Pentameter
7. 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
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Symbol
Foreshadowing
8. 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 -
Rising action
Flashback
Climax
Ballad
9. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Irony
Jargon
Irony
Parody
10. 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
Metaphor
Climax
Parable
11. 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.
Plot
Figurative Language
Literal Language
Imagery
12. 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?
Exposition
Setting
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Allegory
13. 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
Fairy tales
Style
Denouement/Resolution
14. 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
Metaphor
Prose
Autobiography
Irony
15. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Novel
Symbol
16. 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
Denotation
Metaphor
Imagery
Tragedy
17. 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
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Personification
Structure
18. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
novellas
Literal
Hyperbole
Examples of folk tales
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
Syllogism
Tragedy
Point of view
Parable
20. 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.
Denotation
Biography
Setting
Animal folk tales
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
Protagonist
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Satire
Flashback
22. The main thought expressed by a work.
Satire
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Simile
Theme
23. 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
Literal
Animal folk tales
Denotation
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
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
Feminine ending
Metaphor
Short Story
Imagery
25. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Plot
Parody
Denotation
Rhetorical question
26. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Folk tales
Parody
Oxymoron
Novel
27. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Irony
Personification
Free Verse
Parable
28. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Folk tales
Figurative Language
Personification
Oxymoron
29. 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
Structure
Symbol
Lyrical
Omniscient point of view
30. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Figurative Language
Style
Diction
Examples of folk tales
31. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Symbol
Connotation
Irony
Setting
32. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Style
Plot
Sonnet
33. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Rising action
Setting
Denotation
Free Verse
34. 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
Simile
Narrative techniques
Soliloquy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
35. 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.)
Genre
Thesis
Paradox
Oxymoron
36. 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?
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry
3 major categories of poetry
Folk tales
37. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Novel
Convention
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Personification
38. 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
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Examples of folk tales
39. 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
Denotation
Short Story
Flashback
Novel
40. 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.)
Literal
Irony
Attitude
Diction
41. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
3 major categories of poetry
Oxymoron
42. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Falling action
Symbol
Feminine ending
Poetry
43. Shorter novels are called ___________
Figurative Language
Tone
Theme
novellas
44. 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
Point of view
Hyperbole
Parable
Personification
45. 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.
Setting
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Oxymoron
Biography
46. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Allusion
Denouement/Resolution
47. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Foreshadowing
Animal folk tales
Metaphor
Tragedy
48. 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.)
Analyzing Poetry
Convention
Iambic Pentameter
Symbol
49. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Protagonist
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Convention
Poetry
50. 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.'
Satire
Thesis
Structure
Metaphor
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