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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Irony
Analogy
Point of view
2. 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).
Free Verse
Genre
Rhetorical techniques
Examples of folk tales
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
Syllogism
Imagery
Omniscient point of view
Climax
4. 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?
Connotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry
Allegory
5. 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.)
Narrative techniques
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Denouement/Resolution
6. 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
Omniscient point of view
Syllogism
Point of view
Soliloquy
7. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Iambic Pentameter
Imagery
Hyperbole
8. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Falling action
Style
Alliteration
9. Shorter novels are called ___________
novellas
Hyperbole
Legends
Rhetorical techniques
10. 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?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Biography
Poetry
Narrative techniques
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.'
Thesis
Jargon
Metaphor
Rhetorical techniques
12. 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 are the important images and figures of speech?
Falling action
Rising action
Point of view
13. 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
Imagery
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Denotation
14. 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.
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Climax
Euphemism
15. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Literal
Analyzing Poetry
Protagonist
Feminine ending
16. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Jargon
Genre
Novel
Narrative techniques
17. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Paradox
Euphemism
Autobiography
Sonnet
18. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Figurative Language
Euphemism
Literal
19. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Alliteration
Theme
Style
20. 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.)
Simile
Falling action
Rising action
Oxymoron
21. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Hyperbole
Convention
Animal folk tales
Novel
22. 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
Convention
Irony
23. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Folk tales
Tone
Imagery
24. 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 tone of the poem?
Theme
Style
Imagery
25. An author's account of his or her own life.
Autobiography
Symbol
Falling action
Hyperbole
26. 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.)
Theme
Literal Language
Attitude
Omniscient point of view
27. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Sonnet
Rhetorical techniques
Personification
Poetry
28. 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.
Allegory
Satire
Climax
Omniscient point of view
29. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Ballad
Structure
Literal
Allusion
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.
Myths
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Analogy
31. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Rhetorical question
Irony
Thesis
Alliteration
32. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Simile
Parable
3 major categories of poetry
33. 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
Fairy tales
Style
Irony
Omniscient point of view
34. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Climax
Foreshadowing
Rhetorical question
35. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Irony
Allusion
Plot
36. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Myths
Soliloquy
3 major categories of poetry
Biography
37. 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
Simile
Figurative Language
3 major categories of poetry
38. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Irony
Structure
Thesis
Sonnet
39. 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
Simile
Point of view
Setting
Structure
40. 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
Novel
Irony
Feminine ending
Soliloquy
41. 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
Metaphor
Tragedy
Figurative Language
Narrative techniques
42. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Jargon
Structure
Denotation
Hyperbole
43. 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
Oxymoron
Satire
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Tone
44. The main thought expressed by a work.
Setting
Folk tales
Theme
Alliteration
45. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Iambic Pentameter
Allusion
Setting
46. An accurate history of a single person.
Allegory
Euphemism
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Biography
47. 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
Oxymoron
Omniscient point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Allegory
48. 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
Novel
Foreshadowing
Biography
49. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Exposition
Sonnet
Simile
Falling action
50. 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.
Literal Language
Rhetorical question
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Rising action