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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Biography
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry
Exposition
2. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Symbol
Alliteration
Exposition
Irony
3. 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.
Novel
Iambic Pentameter
Jargon
Theme
4. 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
Alliteration
Irony
Satire
Genre
5. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Oxymoron
Rhetorical question
Literal Language
6. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Animal folk tales
Style
Biography
7. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Narrative techniques
Euphemism
Analogy
Feminine ending
8. 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
Climax
Alliteration
Metaphor
Legends
9. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Free Verse
Personification
Plot
10. The main thought expressed by a work.
Falling action
Autobiography
Theme
Satire
11. 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 -
Tragedy
Metaphor
Climax
Literal
12. 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
Irony
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Literal Language
13. 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.'
Protagonist
Simile
Plot
Metaphor
14. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Analogy
Narrative techniques
Ballad
Iambic Pentameter
15. 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.'
Analogy
Feminine ending
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
16. 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
Novel
Satire
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
17. 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
Irony
Alliteration
Animal folk tales
18. 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
Poetry
Figurative Language
Narrative techniques
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.
Style
Syllogism
Symbol
Satire
20. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Denotation
Examples of folk tales
Lyrical
Parody
21. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Literal Language
Convention
Parable
Diction
22. 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
Rhetorical question
Narrative techniques
Exposition
Symbol
23. An author's account of his or her own life.
Free Verse
Rhetorical techniques
Autobiography
Connotation
24. 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.)
Parable
Convention
Climax
Tragedy
25. 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
Oxymoron
Short Story
Examples of folk tales
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
26. 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
Soliloquy
Protagonist
Oxymoron
Poetry
27. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Novel
Omniscient point of view
Parody
28. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Autobiography
29. 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
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Climax
Hyperbole
30. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Protagonist
Free Verse
Rhetorical techniques
Autobiography
31. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Alliteration
Connotation
Setting
Oxymoron
32. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Personification
Prose
Sonnet
Literal
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.'
Flashback
Short Story
Analogy
Parable
34. 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
Folk tales
Parody
Biography
Tone
35. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Thesis
Sonnet
Exposition
36. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Genre
Syllogism
Parody
Poetry
37. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Connotation
Denotation
novellas
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
38. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Figurative Language
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Animal folk tales
Foreshadowing
39. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Setting
Imagery
Lyrical
Simile
40. 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.
Figurative Language
Hyperbole
Parable
Satire
41. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Point of view
Protagonist
Rhetorical question
42. 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
Thesis
Narrative techniques
Genre
Sonnet
43. 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).
Hyperbole
Genre
Poetry
Rhetorical question
44. 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
Feminine ending
Connotation
Structure
Flashback
45. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Diction
Falling action
Tragedy
Thesis
46. 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
Connotation
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Tragedy
47. 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
Protagonist
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Feminine ending
48. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry
Tone
Diction
49. 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.
Soliloquy
Biography
Personification
Literal Language
50. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Prose
Metaphor
Rhetorical question
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy