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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
novellas
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Allegory
2. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Hyperbole
Short Story
3. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Sonnet
Rhetorical question
Figurative Language
Plot
4. 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
Sonnet
Structure
Short Story
Novel
5. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Imagery
Euphemism
Omniscient point of view
Free Verse
6. 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
Alliteration
Diction
Syllogism
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
Rising action
Simile
Attitude
Structure
8. 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
Tragedy
Feminine ending
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Figurative Language
9. 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
Imagery
Novel
Flashback
Allegory
10. An accurate history of a single person.
Parody
Ballad
Biography
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
11. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Climax
Thesis
Personification
12. 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
Rhetorical question
Hyperbole
Setting
13. 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.)
Folk tales
Euphemism
Imagery
Paradox
14. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
Figurative Language
Exposition
Iambic Pentameter
15. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Poetry
Ballad
16. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Oxymoron
Protagonist
Rhetorical techniques
Figurative Language
17. 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.)
Symbol
Attitude
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
3 major categories of poetry
18. 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.
Parody
Flashback
Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
19. 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
Folk tales
Syllogism
Tragedy
Foreshadowing
20. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Animal folk tales
Examples of folk tales
Lyrical
Denotation
21. 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
Biography
Legends
Parable
22. 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
Narrative techniques
Feminine ending
Foreshadowing
Free Verse
23. 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
Climax
Connotation
Structure
Narrative techniques
24. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Exposition
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Foreshadowing
25. 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
Genre
Autobiography
Syllogism
Point of view
26. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Parable
Prose
Flashback
27. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Literal
Foreshadowing
Genre
Personification
28. 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
Falling action
Exposition
Climax
Iambic Pentameter
29. 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
Denotation
Diction
Imagery
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
30. 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
Tone
Allegory
Jargon
Novel
31. 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
Personification
Ballad
Myths
Protagonist
32. 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.)
Euphemism
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Convention
Rhetorical techniques
33. 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.
Fairy tales
Setting
Rising action
Denotation
34. 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
Setting
Oxymoron
Allusion
Diction
35. 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 -
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Denouement/Resolution
Soliloquy
36. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Prose
Irony
Metaphor
Style
37. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Genre
Syllogism
Figurative Language
Falling action
38. 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.'
Paradox
Allegory
Simile
Tone
39. 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
Legends
Personification
Folk tales
Novel
40. 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.'
Climax
novellas
Metaphor
Tragedy
41. The main thought expressed by a work.
Thesis
Theme
Paradox
Rhetorical techniques
42. 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
Parody
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Symbol
43. 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
3 major categories of poetry
Oxymoron
Folk tales
Irony
44. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Hyperbole
Irony
Irony
Parable
45. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Tone
Soliloquy
Diction
46. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Myths
Hyperbole
47. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Denotation
Hyperbole
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Syllogism
48. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Genre
Connotation
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Biography
49. 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?
Myths
Analyzing Poetry
Diction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
50. 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
Denouement/Resolution
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Novel