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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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.'
Personification
Narrative techniques
Metaphor
Diction
2. 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
Hyperbole
Protagonist
Soliloquy
Prose
3. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Metaphor
Soliloquy
4. 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.)
Novel
Convention
Lyrical
Simile
5. 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?
Hyperbole
Point of view
Iambic Pentameter
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
6. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Syllogism
Personification
Examples of folk tales
Prose
7. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Diction
Literal
Paradox
8. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Poetry
Sonnet
Diction
Climax
9. 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.
Feminine ending
Convention
Setting
Poetry
10. 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
Myths
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Denouement/Resolution
Allegory
11. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Attitude
Symbol
Connotation
Personification
12. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
Imagery
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
13. 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.
Denouement/Resolution
Imagery
Fairy tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
14. 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
Rising action
Oxymoron
Short Story
Narrative techniques
15. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Allusion
Diction
Short Story
16. 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.'
Parable
Soliloquy
Analogy
Personification
17. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Rhetorical techniques
Tone
Tragedy
Jargon
18. An author's account of his or her own life.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Jargon
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Autobiography
19. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Prose
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Narrative techniques
20. 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).
Personification
Plot
Genre
Parable
21. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Literal
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Diction
22. An accurate history of a single person.
Imagery
Connotation
Biography
Irony
23. 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
Legends
Poetry
Oxymoron
24. 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.)
Climax
Flashback
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Attitude
25. 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
Symbol
Simile
novellas
Thesis
26. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Allusion
Plot
Literal
Diction
27. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Plot
Irony
Thesis
Legends
28. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Myths
Imagery
30. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Short Story
Literal Language
Allusion
31. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Free Verse
Irony
Attitude
Omniscient point of view
32. 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
Folk tales
Jargon
Metaphor
Imagery
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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Omniscient point of view
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Tone
34. 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
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Allegory
Short Story
35. 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.
Novel
Climax
Personification
Literal Language
36. 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
Style
Flashback
Figurative Language
Oxymoron
37. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Rhetorical techniques
Parody
Fairy tales
Iambic Pentameter
38. 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
Irony
Metaphor
Omniscient point of view
Feminine ending
39. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Prose
Animal folk tales
Hyperbole
Falling action
40. A story in which people - things - and events have another meaning. (Orwell's Animal Farm) - Explaining meaning other than the words that are spoken - Conveys meaning through use of symbolic figures - actions - and symbolic representation - Extended
Allegory
Exposition
Sonnet
Prose
41. 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
Irony
Convention
42. 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
Climax
Point of view
Protagonist
Exposition
43. 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 -
Structure
Point of view
Climax
Metaphor
44. 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?
Jargon
Hyperbole
Ballad
Analyzing Poetry
45. 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?
Sonnet
Allegory
Irony
46. 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
Free Verse
Imagery
Ballad
47. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Feminine ending
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Figurative Language
48. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Denotation
Literal
Examples of folk tales
Allusion
49. 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.
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Syllogism
50. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Protagonist
Climax
Imagery
Sonnet
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