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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Sonnet
Rhetorical techniques
2. 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.'
Jargon
Metaphor
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
3. 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
Hyperbole
Fairy tales
Irony
4. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
Metaphor
Free Verse
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
5. 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
Soliloquy
Imagery
Climax
Point of view
6. 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.)
Attitude
Thesis
Convention
Literal Language
7. 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
Irony
Euphemism
Figurative Language
Protagonist
8. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Irony
Allegory
Lyrical
9. 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
Legends
Style
Plot
Flashback
10. 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
Soliloquy
Analogy
Folk tales
Hyperbole
11. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Tone
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Allusion
12. 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
Literal Language
Falling action
Folk tales
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
13. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Jargon
Analogy
Protagonist
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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Paradox
Satire
Feminine ending
15. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Free Verse
Protagonist
Falling action
Thesis
16. Shorter novels are called ___________
novellas
Metaphor
Genre
Hyperbole
17. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Sonnet
Folk tales
Free Verse
Short Story
18. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Connotation
Imagery
Thesis
Narrative techniques
19. 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
Oxymoron
Climax
Diction
20. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Analogy
Personification
Style
Simile
21. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Imagery
Autobiography
Diction
Protagonist
22. 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
Convention
Myths
Oxymoron
Iambic Pentameter
23. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Allegory
Soliloquy
Euphemism
Autobiography
24. 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
Imagery
Thesis
Imagery
Allusion
25. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Climax
Metaphor
3 major categories of poetry
26. 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
Structure
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Narrative techniques
27. Evoke events of a time long past - Generally concern the adventures and misadventures of gods - giants - heroes - nymphs - satyrs - and larger - than - life villains - all entities that reside outside of ordinary human existence yet are entwined in o
Autobiography
Fairy tales
Myths
Prose
28. 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.'
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Examples of folk tales
Analogy
Euphemism
29. 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
Genre
Diction
Rising action
Imagery
30. An author's account of his or her own life.
Style
Metaphor
Irony
Autobiography
31. 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: Is the meaning clear?
Setting
Parody
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
32. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Ballad
Oxymoron
Legends
Parody
33. 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.
Connotation
Personification
Omniscient point of view
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
34. 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
Folk tales
Metaphor
Thesis
Syllogism
35. 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?
Figurative Language
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Convention
36. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Soliloquy
37. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Analogy
Lyrical
Diction
3 major categories of poetry
38. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Figurative Language
Irony
Protagonist
39. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Ballad
Animal folk tales
40. 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.
Hyperbole
Setting
Rhetorical techniques
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
41. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Parable
Irony
Diction
Climax
42. 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
Imagery
Hyperbole
Irony
Figurative Language
43. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Alliteration
Plot
Iambic Pentameter
Figurative Language
44. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
3 major categories of poetry
Connotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Protagonist
45. 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
Literal
Protagonist
Structure
Parable
46. 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
Metaphor
Rhetorical question
Figurative Language
Alliteration
47. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Jargon
Literal Language
Falling action
Hyperbole
48. 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).
Structure
Iambic Pentameter
novellas
Genre
49. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Genre
Metaphor
50. A figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ - characteristically praise for blame or blame for praise; a pattern of words that turns away from direct statement of its own obvious meaning. The term irony implies a discrepancy. In verb
Poetry
Irony
Foreshadowing
Falling action