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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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.)
Autobiography
Paradox
Rhetorical techniques
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
2. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Imagery
Jargon
Hyperbole
3. 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
Figurative Language
Allusion
3 major categories of poetry
Structure
4. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Feminine ending
Biography
Denotation
Climax
5. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Analyzing Poetry
Prose
Protagonist
Figurative Language
6. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Animal folk tales
Style
Denouement/Resolution
Rhetorical question
7. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
3 major categories of poetry
Denouement/Resolution
Oxymoron
Animal folk tales
8. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Protagonist
Biography
Tragedy
Climax
9. 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
Syllogism
Poetry
Parable
Genre
10. 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
Literal Language
Novel
Rhetorical techniques
Imagery
11. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Rhetorical techniques
Jargon
Connotation
Denouement/Resolution
12. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Tone
Falling action
Euphemism
Literal
13. 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.
Metaphor
Imagery
Literal Language
Poetry
14. 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
Soliloquy
Allegory
Examples of folk tales
15. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Tone
Style
Paradox
Denouement/Resolution
16. 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
Novel
Literal
Rhetorical question
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
17. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
18. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Euphemism
Protagonist
Attitude
Personification
19. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
novellas
Personification
20. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
21. 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
Metaphor
Plot
Flashback
Hyperbole
22. Shorter novels are called ___________
Literal Language
novellas
Allegory
Plot
23. 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
Myths
Flashback
Allusion
Metaphor
24. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Oxymoron
Allusion
Point of view
25. An accurate history of a single person.
Ballad
Biography
Feminine ending
Figurative Language
26. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Thesis
Sonnet
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
27. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Lyrical
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
Legends
Tone
Folk tales
Examples of folk tales
29. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Irony
Hyperbole
Autobiography
Free Verse
30. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
Plot
Symbol
Denouement/Resolution
31. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Plot
Parable
Connotation
Parody
32. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Novel
Metaphor
Allegory
Denouement/Resolution
33. 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
Examples of folk tales
Legends
Paradox
Rising action
34. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Personification
Examples of folk tales
Metaphor
35. 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
Allegory
Allusion
Flashback
Setting
36. 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
Ballad
Jargon
Metaphor
37. 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
Folk tales
Genre
Legends
Diction
38. 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
Parable
Feminine ending
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Irony
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
Iambic Pentameter
Hyperbole
Animal folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
40. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Literal Language
Diction
Oxymoron
Style
41. 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
Symbol
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Connotation
42. 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.
Parable
Jargon
Rising action
Poetry
43. 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?
Connotation
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry
Euphemism
44. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Satire
Examples of folk tales
Metaphor
Climax
45. 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
Biography
Falling action
Novel
46. 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.)
Hyperbole
Attitude
novellas
Prose
47. 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
Irony
Flashback
Figurative Language
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
48. 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
Analyzing Poetry
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Omniscient point of view
49. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Hyperbole
Ballad
Metaphor
Alliteration
50. 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
Symbol
Biography
Satire
Legends
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