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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Omniscient point of view
Tone
Genre
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
2. 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
Alliteration
Symbol
Allegory
3. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Plot
Setting
Falling action
4. 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.
Fairy tales
Point of view
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
5. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Exposition
Hyperbole
Prose
Denotation
6. 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
Falling action
Legends
Folk tales
Parable
7. 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
Autobiography
Climax
Legends
8. 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?
Parody
Style
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
9. 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.
Myths
Biography
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
10. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Foreshadowing
Free Verse
Plot
Connotation
11. The main thought expressed by a work.
Omniscient point of view
Theme
Novel
Animal folk tales
12. 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.)
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Free Verse
Literal Language
13. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Prose
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Allegory
Connotation
14. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Personification
Omniscient point of view
Sonnet
Irony
15. 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.'
Literal Language
Analogy
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
16. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Novel
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Ballad
Allegory
17. 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?
Rising action
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
18. 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.
Lyrical
Folk tales
Convention
Style
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
Foreshadowing
Paradox
Autobiography
Denotation
20. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Personification
Symbol
Metaphor
Literal
21. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Exposition
Climax
Attitude
Tragedy
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
Analyzing Poetry
Point of view
Iambic Pentameter
23. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Prose
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Personification
24. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Narrative techniques
Autobiography
Jargon
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
25. 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?
Plot
Iambic Pentameter
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Falling action
26. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Lyrical
Flashback
Rhetorical question
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
27. 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
Narrative techniques
Oxymoron
Syllogism
Omniscient point of view
28. 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 -
Tone
Climax
Feminine ending
novellas
29. 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.
Poetry
Literal Language
Literal
Syllogism
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. Figurative Language uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning. 'The bl
Fairy tales
Figurative Language
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Free Verse
31. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Soliloquy
Tragedy
3 major categories of poetry
Hyperbole
32. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Parable
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Simile
Irony
33. 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
Analogy
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Rhetorical question
Irony
34. 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.)
Personification
Paradox
novellas
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
35. 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
Jargon
Fairy tales
Denouement/Resolution
Climax
36. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Flashback
Omniscient point of view
Jargon
37. 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.
Rising action
Foreshadowing
Rhetorical techniques
Feminine ending
38. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Omniscient point of view
Personification
39. Shorter novels are called ___________
Sonnet
Denotation
novellas
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
40. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Irony
41. 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).
Falling action
Genre
Folk tales
Figurative Language
42. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Imagery
3 major categories of poetry
Rhetorical techniques
43. 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
Myths
3 major categories of poetry
Omniscient point of view
Symbol
44. 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
Metaphor
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Autobiography
45. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Protagonist
Legends
Structure
Short Story
46. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Ballad
Rhetorical techniques
3 major categories of poetry
Metaphor
47. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Iambic Pentameter
Symbol
Folk tales
48. 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
Prose
Denouement/Resolution
Lyrical
49. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Irony
Prose
Denouement/Resolution
Alliteration
50. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Free Verse
Metaphor
Figurative Language
Parable
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