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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Analyzing Poetry
Setting
Animal folk tales
Denouement/Resolution
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).
Thesis
Genre
Folk tales
Parable
3. 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.
Omniscient point of view
Irony
3 major categories of poetry
Plot
4. 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
Lyrical
Figurative Language
Ballad
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
5. Shorter novels are called ___________
novellas
Novel
Metaphor
Allusion
6. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Flashback
Theme
Personification
Narrative techniques
7. 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?
Euphemism
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Foreshadowing
8. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Euphemism
Diction
Analogy
Personification
9. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Jargon
Denotation
Novel
Literal
10. 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
Feminine ending
Novel
Personification
11. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Denotation
Plot
Novel
Free Verse
12. An author's account of his or her own life.
Syllogism
Autobiography
Tone
Point of view
13. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Structure
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
14. Encompasses works written in verse - perhaps with a meter and rhyme scheme - and uses written language in a pattern that is sung - chanted - or spoken to emphasize the relationships between words and ideas on the basis of sound as well as meaning. Th
Flashback
Examples of folk tales
Literal Language
Poetry
15. 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
Thesis
Short Story
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Paradox
16. 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
Euphemism
Autobiography
Exposition
Tone
17. 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
Allusion
Foreshadowing
Satire
Thesis
18. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Literal
Point of view
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
Narrative techniques
Convention
Symbol
Literal Language
20. 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
Thesis
Satire
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Tone
21. 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
Flashback
Symbol
Imagery
Allusion
22. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Myths
Ballad
Allegory
Fairy tales
23. 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
Novel
Point of view
Tone
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
24. 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
Novel
Theme
Irony
Alliteration
25. 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
Paradox
Foreshadowing
Tone
Feminine ending
26. 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
Theme
Rhetorical question
Tone
27. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Falling action
Novel
Examples of folk tales
Flashback
28. 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
Parable
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Fairy tales
29. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Parable
Point of view
Metaphor
30. 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.)
Diction
Exposition
Attitude
Oxymoron
31. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Rhetorical techniques
Style
Hyperbole
Biography
32. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Irony
Connotation
Animal folk tales
Theme
33. An accurate history of a single person.
Biography
Sonnet
Soliloquy
Prose
34. 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
Short Story
Personification
Theme
Soliloquy
35. 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
Prose
Tone
Flashback
36. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Legends
Folk tales
Parody
Myths
37. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Fairy tales
Feminine ending
Personification
38. 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
Short Story
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Lyrical
Tragedy
39. 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.
Style
novellas
Literal Language
Autobiography
40. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Protagonist
Climax
Novel
Analyzing Poetry
41. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Jargon
Rhetorical techniques
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
42. 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
Novel
Climax
Literal
Iambic Pentameter
43. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Analyzing Poetry
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Syllogism
44. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Alliteration
Legends
Parody
Free Verse
45. 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.
Falling action
Rising action
Diction
Analogy
46. 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.
Metaphor
Style
Hyperbole
Falling action
47. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Biography
Protagonist
Thesis
Animal folk tales
48. 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
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Autobiography
Climax
49. 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
Convention
Allusion
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analogy
50. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Exposition
Attitude
Climax
Imagery