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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The main thought expressed by a work.
novellas
Theme
Examples of folk tales
Myths
2. 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
Soliloquy
Imagery
Flashback
Myths
3. 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
Allegory
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Plot
4. 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
Allegory
Syllogism
Fairy tales
Figurative Language
5. 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
Irony
Jargon
Animal folk tales
Poetry
6. 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.
Irony
Lyrical
Parody
Setting
7. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Irony
Theme
Free Verse
Omniscient point of view
8. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Tragedy
Hyperbole
Simile
Narrative techniques
9. 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.
Rhetorical question
Parable
Style
Literal Language
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
Examples of folk tales
Structure
Narrative techniques
11. 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
Protagonist
Attitude
Irony
Novel
12. 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
Flashback
Imagery
Style
Sonnet
13. 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
Soliloquy
Symbol
Myths
Figurative Language
14. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Imagery
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
15. 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?
Analyzing Poetry
Personification
Ballad
Tone
16. 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
Figurative Language
Foreshadowing
Allegory
Folk tales
17. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Tone
Soliloquy
Denotation
Paradox
18. 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
Feminine ending
Symbol
Figurative Language
Omniscient point of view
19. 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
3 major categories of poetry
Rhetorical techniques
Simile
20. 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.'
Denotation
Metaphor
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
21. 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
Fairy tales
Personification
Syllogism
Novel
22. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Short Story
Tragedy
Personification
Feminine ending
23. 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
Style
Folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
24. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Flashback
Novel
Sonnet
25. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Personification
Euphemism
Rhetorical question
Denotation
26. 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.)
Tragedy
Imagery
Oxymoron
Rhetorical techniques
27. 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?
Allegory
Ballad
Folk tales
28. 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?
Theme
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Climax
Poetry
29. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Prose
Syllogism
Iambic Pentameter
Sonnet
30. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Analyzing Poetry
Rhetorical techniques
Folk tales
Tragedy
31. 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
Lyrical
Flashback
Plot
32. 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.
Prose
Style
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Irony
33. 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
Tone
Irony
Metaphor
Oxymoron
34. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Diction
Convention
Plot
Climax
35. 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
Diction
Theme
Prose
Soliloquy
36. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Satire
Examples of folk tales
Poetry
Protagonist
37. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Theme
Lyrical
Parody
Folk tales
38. 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.
Alliteration
Rising action
Literal Language
Falling action
39. An accurate history of a single person.
Biography
Sonnet
Theme
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
40. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Convention
Narrative techniques
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Parable
41. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Parable
Connotation
Paradox
Fairy tales
42. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Exposition
Theme
novellas
43. 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
Legends
Denotation
Narrative techniques
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
44. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Falling action
Hyperbole
Climax
Exposition
45. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Thesis
Narrative techniques
Personification
Euphemism
46. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Convention
3 major categories of poetry
Thesis
Figurative Language
47. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Irony
Alliteration
Rhetorical question
Falling action
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.)
Feminine ending
Convention
Animal folk tales
Rhetorical question
49. 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.'
Analogy
Prose
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Figurative Language
50. An author's account of his or her own life.
Omniscient point of view
Autobiography
Tone
Allusion