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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Flashback
Personification
Metaphor
Narrative techniques
2. 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
Hyperbole
Biography
Flashback
Short Story
3. 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.'
Irony
Rhetorical question
Tone
Simile
4. 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?
Feminine ending
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Connotation
5. 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
Plot
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Setting
Personification
6. 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.'
Sonnet
Foreshadowing
Diction
Analogy
7. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
novellas
Flashback
Oxymoron
8. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Foreshadowing
Iambic Pentameter
Parable
Allegory
9. 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.)
Syllogism
Convention
3 major categories of poetry
Denotation
10. 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.
Sonnet
novellas
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
11. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Novel
Parody
Satire
Hyperbole
12. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Symbol
13. Condensed story ranging in length from 2000-10000 words - most often with a singular/limited purpose - Made up of elements such as plot - character - setting - point of view - and theme - Often based on common dramatic structure
Lyrical
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Short Story
Iambic Pentameter
14. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Metaphor
Novel
Theme
Free Verse
15. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Connotation
Protagonist
Convention
Sonnet
16. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Setting
Exposition
Literal
Free Verse
17. 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
Structure
Omniscient point of view
Hyperbole
Euphemism
18. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Literal
Feminine ending
Prose
Genre
19. 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
Falling action
Symbol
Allusion
Irony
20. 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.
Folk tales
Omniscient point of view
Hyperbole
Flashback
21. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
3 major categories of poetry
Omniscient point of view
Connotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
22. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Flashback
Rhetorical question
Analogy
23. 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.)
Denotation
Structure
Attitude
Personification
24. 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.)
Oxymoron
Ballad
Personification
Denotation
25. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Falling action
Flashback
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Novel
26. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Free Verse
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Tragedy
27. An accurate history of a single person.
Animal folk tales
Narrative techniques
Biography
novellas
28. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Climax
Diction
Imagery
29. Shorter novels are called ___________
Oxymoron
Fairy tales
novellas
Literal
30. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Biography
Examples of folk tales
Poetry
Irony
31. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
3 major categories of poetry
Plot
Analogy
32. 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
Exposition
Novel
Rhetorical techniques
Diction
33. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Theme
Allegory
Connotation
Denotation
34. 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
Simile
Oxymoron
Satire
Hyperbole
35. 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?
Rhetorical techniques
Convention
Theme
Analyzing Poetry
36. 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.
Alliteration
Theme
Simile
Omniscient point of view
37. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Autobiography
Connotation
Point of view
Style
38. 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
Irony
Analyzing Poetry
Allegory
Analogy
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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Iambic Pentameter
Allusion
Exposition
40. 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
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Irony
41. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Connotation
Rhetorical question
Iambic Pentameter
Imagery
42. 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
Imagery
Setting
Denotation
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.
Legends
Climax
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Literal Language
44. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Allusion
Ballad
Falling action
Allegory
45. 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
Flashback
Irony
Attitude
Alliteration
46. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
novellas
Simile
Alliteration
Autobiography
47. 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
Oxymoron
Tragedy
Foreshadowing
Biography
48. 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.'
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Imagery
Metaphor
Literal
49. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Novel
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Irony
Parody
50. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Denouement/Resolution
3 major categories of poetry
Myths
Diction