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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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.
Thesis
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Style
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
2. 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
Theme
Iambic Pentameter
Rhetorical question
Animal folk tales
3. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Plot
Rhetorical techniques
Falling action
4. 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
Flashback
Rhetorical question
Tragedy
Examples of folk tales
5. 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
Style
Allegory
Prose
Myths
6. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Theme
Fairy tales
7. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Examples of folk tales
Hyperbole
Rhetorical question
Exposition
8. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Irony
Denotation
Rhetorical question
Falling action
9. 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.
Myths
Genre
Falling action
Jargon
10. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Analyzing Poetry
Literal
Imagery
Novel
11. 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
Literal Language
Metaphor
Novel
Point of view
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
Imagery
Climax
Irony
Tone
13. 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
Feminine ending
Legends
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
14. 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 -
Biography
Climax
3 major categories of poetry
Legends
15. 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.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Hyperbole
Imagery
Connotation
16. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Tragedy
Jargon
Connotation
Sonnet
17. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Protagonist
Foreshadowing
Irony
Rhetorical question
18. 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.)
Genre
Denouement/Resolution
Attitude
Paradox
19. 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
Literal Language
novellas
Theme
Foreshadowing
20. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Thesis
Structure
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
21. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Poetry
Hyperbole
Personification
22. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Exposition
Poetry
Feminine ending
3 major categories of poetry
23. 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
3 major categories of poetry
Irony
Short Story
24. Shorter novels are called ___________
novellas
Metaphor
Literal Language
Figurative Language
25. 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
Protagonist
Metaphor
Jargon
Personification
26. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Rhetorical techniques
Tragedy
Novel
Lyrical
27. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Legends
Protagonist
Poetry
Sonnet
28. 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
Convention
Biography
Omniscient point of view
Imagery
29. 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
Lyrical
Syllogism
Genre
Feminine ending
30. 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
Convention
Diction
Figurative Language
Setting
31. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Alliteration
Poetry
Point of view
Parable
32. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Simile
Literal
Free Verse
Theme
33. 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.)
Satire
Thesis
Genre
Oxymoron
34. 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
Personification
Myths
Euphemism
Falling action
35. 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?
Omniscient point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry
36. 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
Climax
Rhetorical techniques
Poetry
Soliloquy
37. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Genre
Free Verse
Jargon
Diction
38. 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.
Denotation
Setting
Figurative Language
Metaphor
39. An author's account of his or her own life.
Hyperbole
Poetry
Autobiography
Style
40. 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
Structure
Jargon
Allusion
Literal
41. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Tone
Style
Rhetorical techniques
Denotation
42. 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
Biography
Protagonist
Syllogism
43. 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
Analogy
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Setting
44. 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
Falling action
Point of view
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
45. 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
Ballad
Protagonist
Style
46. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Biography
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Parable
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
47. 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
Animal folk tales
Iambic Pentameter
Theme
Irony
48. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Personification
Tone
Foreshadowing
3 major categories of poetry
49. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Syllogism
Ballad
Tragedy
Climax
50. 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
Satire
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Autobiography
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