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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Novel
Euphemism
Sonnet
2. 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
3 major categories of poetry
Tragedy
Hyperbole
3. 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 dramatic situation?
Euphemism
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
4. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Flashback
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
5. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Alliteration
Attitude
Genre
Animal folk tales
6. 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?
Simile
Denouement/Resolution
3 major categories of poetry
7. 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
Paradox
Structure
Metaphor
Lyrical
8. An author's account of his or her own life.
Structure
Parody
Autobiography
Hyperbole
9. 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
Paradox
Literal
Alliteration
Point of view
10. 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
Symbol
Analogy
Narrative techniques
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
11. 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 -
Convention
Metaphor
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
12. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Myths
novellas
Protagonist
Literal
13. 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.
Free Verse
Imagery
Hyperbole
Biography
14. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Connotation
Convention
Personification
Fairy tales
15. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Folk tales
Parable
Analogy
Connotation
16. 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
Foreshadowing
Jargon
Feminine ending
Myths
17. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Prose
Hyperbole
Simile
Narrative techniques
18. 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?
Lyrical
Syllogism
Rhetorical techniques
Analyzing Poetry
19. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Convention
Literal Language
20. 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.
Narrative techniques
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Setting
novellas
21. 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
Syllogism
Plot
Allegory
Metaphor
22. 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.'
Sonnet
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
23. 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.'
Denotation
Simile
Syllogism
Figurative Language
24. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Irony
Folk tales
Parable
Analogy
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.)
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Plot
Paradox
Personification
26. 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
Omniscient point of view
Animal folk tales
Flashback
Fairy tales
27. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Attitude
Jargon
28. 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
Flashback
Fairy tales
Syllogism
Symbol
29. 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
Narrative techniques
Parody
Figurative Language
Prose
30. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Genre
Sonnet
Protagonist
Attitude
31. 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).
Autobiography
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Genre
Free Verse
32. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Imagery
Point of view
Ballad
Convention
33. 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.
Personification
Rising action
Folk tales
Analyzing Poetry
34. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Rhetorical question
Sonnet
Irony
Folk tales
35. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Oxymoron
Lyrical
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Rhetorical techniques
36. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Analogy
Falling action
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
novellas
37. 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
Euphemism
Alliteration
Omniscient point of view
38. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Ballad
Parable
Diction
Rhetorical question
39. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Autobiography
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Irony
Rhetorical techniques
40. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Plot
Novel
Hyperbole
41. 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
Diction
Imagery
Structure
42. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Irony
Plot
Theme
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
43. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Short Story
Legends
Point of view
Tragedy
44. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Parable
Parody
3 major categories of poetry
Metaphor
45. 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
Connotation
Jargon
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
46. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Rising action
Analyzing Poetry
Myths
47. An accurate history of a single person.
Metaphor
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Connotation
Biography
48. 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.
Metaphor
Rising action
Rhetorical techniques
Style
49. A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression.(A lover observing the literary love conventions cannot eat or sleep and grows pale and lean.)
Analogy
Irony
Convention
Rhetorical techniques
50. 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?
Climax
Legends
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Exposition