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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Personification
novellas
Figurative Language
2. 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).
Genre
Literal Language
Figurative Language
Symbol
3. 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
Metaphor
Examples of folk tales
Symbol
Plot
4. Prose narratives that follow traditional storylines that arise from oral traditions in histories - As old as language - Adapt from culture to culture - Original author is never known - Arise through the process of recombining traditional elements (mo
Feminine ending
Folk tales
Short Story
Analyzing Poetry
5. 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.
Hyperbole
Falling action
Jargon
Literal
6. 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
Analogy
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
7. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Tragedy
Denotation
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Sonnet
8. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Foreshadowing
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
9. 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
Style
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Tragedy
10. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Satire
Flashback
Figurative Language
11. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
3 major categories of poetry
Connotation
Personification
Personification
12. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Metaphor
Syllogism
Free Verse
Biography
13. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Allusion
Exposition
Flashback
14. An author's account of his or her own life.
Denouement/Resolution
Exposition
Autobiography
Hyperbole
15. 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
Thesis
Irony
novellas
Hyperbole
16. 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
Oxymoron
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
17. 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.)
Metaphor
Ballad
Convention
Denouement/Resolution
18. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Climax
Irony
Syllogism
19. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Novel
Imagery
Style
20. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Iambic Pentameter
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Climax
Allusion
21. An accurate history of a single person.
Feminine ending
Biography
Poetry
Connotation
22. 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
Parable
Novel
Literal Language
Satire
23. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Literal Language
Lyrical
Thesis
Structure
24. Shorter novels are called ___________
novellas
Free Verse
Climax
Metaphor
25. 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
Style
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Flashback
Paradox
26. 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.
Analyzing Poetry
Rising action
Attitude
Tragedy
27. 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
Narrative techniques
Jargon
Hyperbole
Flashback
28. 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
Climax
Figurative Language
Folk tales
Protagonist
29. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Diction
Tragedy
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
30. 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
Metaphor
Lyrical
Structure
Literal
31. 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.
Narrative techniques
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Alliteration
Style
32. 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.
Short Story
Legends
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Fairy tales
33. 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.
novellas
Oxymoron
Fairy tales
Hyperbole
34. 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.'
Analogy
Syllogism
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
35. 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
Poetry
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Style
36. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Alliteration
Rising action
Lyrical
Plot
37. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Euphemism
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Exposition
Imagery
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
Feminine ending
Lyrical
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Exposition
39. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Paradox
Animal folk tales
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
40. 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
Soliloquy
Short Story
Personification
Folk tales
41. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Narrative techniques
Tragedy
Myths
42. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Diction
Rising action
Theme
Denotation
43. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Imagery
Omniscient point of view
Biography
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
Literal
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Style
Animal folk tales
45. The main thought expressed by a work.
Rising action
Simile
Theme
Parable
46. 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
Free Verse
Rhetorical techniques
Legends
47. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Denouement/Resolution
Imagery
Literal Language
48. 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.)
Parable
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Attitude
49. 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.'
Literal Language
Diction
Lyrical
Metaphor
50. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Novel
Allusion
Analyzing Poetry
Prose