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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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?
Literal
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Satire
Falling action
2. 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.
Climax
Point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Feminine ending
3. 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
Alliteration
Narrative techniques
Theme
4. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Lyrical
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Paradox
5. 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
Figurative Language
Satire
Soliloquy
Figurative Language
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
Fairy tales
Feminine ending
Jargon
Denotation
7. 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
Simile
Convention
Style
Symbol
8. Think about: The parts/structural divisions of the poem and how they are related to each other - The punctuation - Repetitions (i.e. parallel syntax or the use of a simile in each sentence) - The logic of the poem. Does it ask questions and then answ
Thesis
Ballad
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
9. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Metaphor
Denouement/Resolution
Allegory
Short Story
10. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Animal folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Parody
Legends
11. 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.)
Allegory
Allusion
Symbol
Oxymoron
12. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Parody
Folk tales
13. 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
Figurative Language
Theme
Denotation
Metaphor
14. 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
Satire
Imagery
Myths
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
15. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Symbol
Exposition
Euphemism
16. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Connotation
Narrative techniques
Tone
novellas
17. 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
Personification
Metaphor
Irony
Structure
18. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Novel
Thesis
Literal
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
19. 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
Point of view
Convention
Feminine ending
Structure
20. 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
Allusion
Satire
Folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
21. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Simile
Novel
Denotation
Setting
22. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Autobiography
Novel
Novel
23. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Denotation
Theme
Thesis
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
24. 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.
Hyperbole
Iambic Pentameter
Rising action
Irony
25. 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.)
Thesis
Protagonist
Paradox
Metaphor
26. 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 -
Symbol
Attitude
Iambic Pentameter
Climax
27. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Diction
Personification
Short Story
Biography
28. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Flashback
Sonnet
Irony
Allegory
29. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Euphemism
Rhetorical question
Plot
Point of view
30. 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
Short Story
Poetry
Protagonist
Figurative Language
31. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Allusion
Setting
Omniscient point of view
Hyperbole
32. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Diction
Euphemism
33. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Exposition
Tone
Theme
Climax
34. 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
Short Story
Rhetorical techniques
Diction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
35. 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
Novel
Legends
Short Story
36. 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.'
Prose
Convention
Analogy
Tone
37. 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
Novel
Feminine ending
Soliloquy
Simile
38. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Metaphor
Irony
Rhetorical techniques
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
39. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Falling action
Symbol
Literal Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
40. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Free Verse
Short Story
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
41. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Feminine ending
Lyrical
Novel
42. 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.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Structure
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Exposition
43. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Allegory
Literal
Alliteration
Novel
44. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Allusion
Prose
Literal Language
45. 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
Denouement/Resolution
Foreshadowing
Tragedy
Omniscient point of view
46. An author's account of his or her own life.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Feminine ending
Autobiography
47. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Lyrical
Tone
Structure
Thesis
48. 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
Parable
Prose
Tone
Style
49. 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).
Novel
Legends
Genre
Parable
50. 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.)
Folk tales
Attitude
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Denouement/Resolution