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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.'
Satire
Denotation
Thesis
Analogy
2. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Irony
Style
Figurative Language
Thesis
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.'
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Setting
Simile
Allegory
4. An author's account of his or her own life.
Soliloquy
Connotation
Narrative techniques
Autobiography
5. 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.'
Iambic Pentameter
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Literal
Metaphor
6. 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.
Diction
Parody
Feminine ending
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
7. 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
Denotation
Symbol
Poetry
Iambic Pentameter
8. 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
Literal
novellas
Myths
9. 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
Myths
Thesis
Personification
10. 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).
Flashback
Autobiography
Point of view
Genre
11. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Figurative Language
Free Verse
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
Oxymoron
Biography
Denouement/Resolution
13. An accurate history of a single person.
Parody
Hyperbole
Euphemism
Biography
14. 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
Hyperbole
Narrative techniques
Point of view
Protagonist
15. 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
Personification
Iambic Pentameter
Theme
16. 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
Analyzing Poetry
Imagery
Parody
Exposition
17. 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
Rising action
Genre
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Allusion
18. 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
Simile
Metaphor
Examples of folk tales
Tragedy
19. 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
Feminine ending
Ballad
Fairy tales
Rhetorical question
20. 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.
Irony
Attitude
Omniscient point of view
Personification
21. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Satire
Biography
Metaphor
22. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Novel
Metaphor
Parable
Denotation
23. 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
Literal
Autobiography
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Symbol
24. 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
Narrative techniques
novellas
Flashback
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
25. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Euphemism
Setting
Figurative Language
Paradox
26. 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
Narrative techniques
Climax
Novel
Analyzing Poetry
27. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Parable
Prose
Theme
28. 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.)
Attitude
Short Story
Animal folk tales
Irony
29. 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
Legends
Plot
Rhetorical question
Parody
30. 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.
Denotation
Jargon
Figurative Language
Analogy
31. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Novel
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Point of view
Sonnet
32. 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
Myths
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Poetry
33. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Short Story
Tragedy
Alliteration
Climax
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
Personification
Attitude
Narrative techniques
Irony
35. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Simile
Parable
Free Verse
Legends
36. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Climax
Connotation
Novel
Convention
37. 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.
Style
Figurative Language
novellas
Analyzing Poetry
38. 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?
Rising action
Euphemism
Structure
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
39. 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?
Analyzing Poetry
Hyperbole
Rhetorical question
Imagery
40. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Climax
Iambic Pentameter
Irony
Sonnet
41. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Hyperbole
Myths
Narrative techniques
Fairy tales
42. 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
Setting
Poetry
Theme
43. 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
Thesis
Simile
Exposition
44. 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
Foreshadowing
Climax
Novel
Myths
45. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Rhetorical question
Parody
Biography
Euphemism
46. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Analogy
Imagery
Parable
47. 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
Plot
Literal
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
48. 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
Satire
Setting
Allegory
Free Verse
49. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Literal
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Setting
50. 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.)
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Metaphor
Short Story
Convention