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CSET Literature - 2
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1. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Flashback
Short Story
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Autobiography
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
Soliloquy
Exposition
Protagonist
Narrative techniques
3. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Jargon
Novel
Paradox
Style
4. 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.
Literal Language
Climax
Irony
Thesis
5. 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
Connotation
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Attitude
Parody
6. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Exposition
Climax
Free Verse
Poetry
7. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Connotation
Personification
Poetry
Parody
8. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Paradox
Denouement/Resolution
Satire
Rhetorical question
9. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Tragedy
Analogy
Hyperbole
Examples of folk tales
10. 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?
Denouement/Resolution
Lyrical
Analyzing Poetry
Allusion
11. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Diction
Syllogism
Style
Literal
12. 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.'
Euphemism
Examples of folk tales
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analogy
13. 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?
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Plot
14. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Plot
Literal
Narrative techniques
novellas
15. 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
Simile
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Oxymoron
Literal
16. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Structure
Exposition
Imagery
Symbol
17. 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).
Genre
Rhetorical question
Tone
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
18. 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 -
Feminine ending
Satire
Climax
Irony
19. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Personification
Parody
Euphemism
Irony
20. 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.
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Figurative Language
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
21. 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
Legends
Denotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Climax
22. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Style
Thesis
Theme
23. 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?
Tragedy
Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Animal folk tales
24. 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
Plot
Narrative techniques
Paradox
Tone
25. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Parable
Poetry
Ballad
Allusion
26. 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
Simile
Allegory
Literal Language
27. 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.
Hyperbole
Iambic Pentameter
Structure
Allegory
28. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Literal
3 major categories of poetry
Prose
29. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Irony
Omniscient point of view
Ballad
Denotation
30. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Ballad
Prose
Irony
Rhetorical techniques
31. 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
Fairy tales
Denouement/Resolution
Narrative techniques
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
32. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Syllogism
Parody
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
33. 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
Satire
Allusion
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Jargon
34. 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.
Autobiography
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Omniscient point of view
35. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length - Styles include picaresque - epistolary - gothic - romantic - realist - and historical ren have mastered the mechanics of reading - between ages 9 and 12 - they are prepared to sustain the more d
Novel
Point of view
Iambic Pentameter
Lyrical
36. 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.'
Satire
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Metaphor
Irony
37. 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
Climax
Structure
Folk tales
Falling action
38. 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
Free Verse
Metaphor
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
39. 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
Syllogism
Iambic Pentameter
Denotation
Soliloquy
40. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Personification
Point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
41. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Alliteration
42. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Protagonist
Imagery
Feminine ending
43. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Diction
Theme
Literal Language
44. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Folk tales
Omniscient point of view
Parable
3 major categories of poetry
45. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Symbol
Metaphor
Sonnet
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
46. 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.)
Falling action
Foreshadowing
Oxymoron
Narrative techniques
47. 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
Simile
Rhetorical techniques
Allusion
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
Setting
Point of view
Myths
Analyzing Poetry
49. 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
Feminine ending
Convention
Genre
Flashback
50. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Poetry
Rising action
Falling action
Fairy tales