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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Attitude
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Fairy tales
2. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Soliloquy
Personification
Parable
Parody
3. A story in which people - things - and events have another meaning. (Orwell's Animal Farm) - Explaining meaning other than the words that are spoken - Conveys meaning through use of symbolic figures - actions - and symbolic representation - Extended
Allegory
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Myths
4. 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
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Rhetorical question
Figurative Language
5. 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
Structure
Foreshadowing
Legends
Iambic Pentameter
6. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Foreshadowing
Euphemism
Tragedy
7. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Sonnet
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Folk tales
Personification
8. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Symbol
Sonnet
Point of view
Protagonist
9. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Lyrical
Connotation
Alliteration
Ballad
10. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Allusion
Feminine ending
11. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Protagonist
Point of view
Simile
Personification
12. 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
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Oxymoron
Irony
13. 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
Legends
Structure
Syllogism
Folk tales
14. 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 -
Short Story
Biography
Climax
Jargon
15. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Rhetorical question
Examples of folk tales
Irony
16. 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.
Metaphor
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
17. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Oxymoron
Novel
Satire
Literal
18. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Novel
Satire
Figurative Language
Convention
19. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Hyperbole
Short Story
Analyzing Poetry
Denotation
20. 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
Rhetorical question
Imagery
Personification
Symbol
21. An accurate history of a single person.
Irony
Simile
Alliteration
Biography
22. 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
Hyperbole
Soliloquy
Metaphor
Theme
23. 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.
Falling action
Hyperbole
Figurative Language
Jargon
24. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Folk tales
Parody
Flashback
25. 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
Alliteration
Euphemism
Free Verse
Myths
26. 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.
Literal
Exposition
Style
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
27. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Feminine ending
Rhetorical question
Personification
Biography
28. 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
Plot
Attitude
Tone
29. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Syllogism
Satire
Euphemism
Examples of folk tales
30. 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.'
Point of view
Flashback
Satire
Metaphor
31. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
32. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Animal folk tales
Poetry
Figurative Language
Thesis
33. 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).
Rhetorical question
Exposition
Hyperbole
Genre
34. 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
Climax
Denotation
Tragedy
Irony
35. 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
Flashback
Style
Omniscient point of view
Animal folk tales
36. 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.
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Short Story
Literal Language
37. 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
Parable
Prose
Soliloquy
Analyzing Poetry
38. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Folk tales
Structure
Prose
39. The main thought expressed by a work.
Irony
Literal Language
Biography
Theme
40. 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
Myths
3 major categories of poetry
Novel
Alliteration
41. 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
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry
Legends
Ballad
42. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Parable
novellas
Exposition
Denouement/Resolution
43. 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.
Poetry
Allegory
Climax
Novel
44. 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
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Falling action
Irony
45. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Fairy tales
Figurative Language
Tragedy
Genre
46. 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
Syllogism
Iambic Pentameter
Legends
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
47. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Tone
Legends
Sonnet
Ballad
48. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Biography
Plot
Literal Language
Imagery
49. 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
Point of view
Figurative Language
Narrative techniques
50. 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.
Omniscient point of view
Denouement/Resolution
Imagery
Soliloquy