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CSET Literature - 2
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1. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Animal folk tales
Jargon
Thesis
Climax
2. 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.
Lyrical
Tone
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Jargon
3. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Omniscient point of view
Metaphor
Prose
4. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Irony
Rising action
5. 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
Thesis
Syllogism
Satire
6. 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
Poetry
Myths
3 major categories of poetry
Novel
7. 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
Rhetorical question
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Genre
8. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Connotation
Rising action
Tone
Syllogism
9. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Simile
Theme
Sonnet
Legends
10. An accurate history of a single person.
Irony
Biography
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
11. 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
Theme
Allusion
Figurative Language
Satire
12. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Denotation
Free Verse
Allusion
13. The main thought expressed by a work.
Irony
novellas
Rhetorical techniques
Theme
14. 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
Style
Personification
Euphemism
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
15. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Irony
Examples of folk tales
Tone
Prose
16. 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.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Imagery
Omniscient point of view
Allusion
17. 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
Myths
Rhetorical techniques
Iambic Pentameter
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
18. 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
Legends
Examples of folk tales
Satire
Literal
19. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Tone
Omniscient point of view
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Structure
20. 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
novellas
3 major categories of poetry
Prose
21. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Hyperbole
Tragedy
Parable
Paradox
22. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Oxymoron
Simile
Climax
23. 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.
Figurative Language
Rising action
Rhetorical techniques
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
24. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Structure
Novel
Alliteration
Imagery
25. 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
Tone
Tragedy
Irony
Narrative techniques
26. 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.
Prose
Flashback
Literal
Climax
27. 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.)
Novel
Attitude
novellas
Lyrical
28. 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?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Syllogism
29. 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.
Allegory
Euphemism
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Setting
30. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Personification
Denouement/Resolution
Animal folk tales
Short Story
31. 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 -
Parody
Metaphor
Omniscient point of view
Climax
32. 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
Novel
Legends
Literal
Allusion
33. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Rhetorical question
Free Verse
Exposition
Personification
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
Lyrical
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Myths
35. 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
Simile
Literal Language
Imagery
Animal folk tales
36. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Attitude
Literal Language
Sonnet
37. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Hyperbole
Diction
Poetry
Parody
38. 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 structure of the poem?
Figurative Language
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
39. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Paradox
Novel
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
40. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Oxymoron
Legends
Euphemism
Personification
41. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Soliloquy
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Attitude
42. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
Genre
Omniscient point of view
Poetry
43. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Metaphor
Literal Language
Lyrical
Setting
44. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Omniscient point of view
3 major categories of poetry
Allusion
45. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Literal
Folk tales
Novel
46. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Structure
Personification
Prose
Protagonist
47. 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
Climax
Myths
Syllogism
Diction
48. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Syllogism
Feminine ending
Hyperbole
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).
Plot
Genre
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
50. 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
Figurative Language
Tone
Structure
Animal folk tales