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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Myths
Allegory
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Iambic Pentameter
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.
Rhetorical techniques
Figurative Language
Climax
Symbol
3. 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
Style
Allusion
Satire
Novel
4. 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.)
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Poetry
Novel
5. 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
Symbol
Soliloquy
Autobiography
Rhetorical techniques
6. 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
Syllogism
Ballad
Folk tales
7. 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.
Setting
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Figurative Language
8. 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.)
Biography
Free Verse
Denotation
Convention
9. 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
Genre
Foreshadowing
Paradox
Imagery
10. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Novel
Hyperbole
Sonnet
Plot
11. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Style
Folk tales
12. An author's account of his or her own life.
Autobiography
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Flashback
13. 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.
Rhetorical question
Examples of folk tales
Hyperbole
Sonnet
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
Allusion
Satire
Climax
Rising action
15. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Narrative techniques
Figurative Language
Legends
16. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Exposition
Flashback
Examples of folk tales
17. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Metaphor
18. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Novel
Falling action
3 major categories of poetry
Novel
19. 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
Allusion
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Narrative techniques
Paradox
20. 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
Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Alliteration
Allegory
21. 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
Foreshadowing
Theme
22. 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.
Short Story
Jargon
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
23. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Denotation
Convention
24. 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.'
Plot
Genre
Paradox
Simile
25. 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
Biography
Point of view
Fairy tales
Convention
26. 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
Setting
Alliteration
Ballad
Figurative Language
27. 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 -
Climax
Irony
Rhetorical question
Convention
28. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Narrative techniques
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Prose
29. The main thought expressed by a work.
Genre
Folk tales
Protagonist
Theme
30. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Style
Convention
Alliteration
31. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Animal folk tales
Rhetorical techniques
Denouement/Resolution
Protagonist
32. 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
Prose
Irony
Structure
33. 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.'
Rhetorical techniques
Analogy
Irony
Figurative Language
34. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Allegory
Theme
Literal
Imagery
35. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Foreshadowing
Syllogism
Alliteration
Free Verse
36. 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.)
Foreshadowing
Attitude
Style
Autobiography
37. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Irony
Parable
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
38. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Sonnet
Animal folk tales
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
39. 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
Myths
novellas
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Denouement/Resolution
40. 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
Structure
Figurative Language
Hyperbole
Attitude
41. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Rising action
Symbol
novellas
Sonnet
42. 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
Soliloquy
Hyperbole
Imagery
Falling action
43. 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
Paradox
Short Story
Tone
Jargon
44. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Euphemism
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Allegory
Imagery
45. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Convention
Animal folk tales
3 major categories of poetry
Rhetorical question
46. 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.
Genre
Ballad
Parody
Literal Language
47. 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.)
Paradox
Theme
3 major categories of poetry
Feminine ending
48. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Connotation
49. 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.
Irony
Omniscient point of view
Simile
Ballad
50. An accurate history of a single person.
Biography
Free Verse
Analyzing Poetry
Hyperbole
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