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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Analogy
Connotation
Tone
2. 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
Allegory
Feminine ending
Syllogism
Rising action
3. 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
Jargon
Climax
Narrative techniques
Hyperbole
4. 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.'
Feminine ending
Euphemism
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
5. 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
Syllogism
Rising action
Sonnet
Personification
6. 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.'
Simile
Iambic Pentameter
Imagery
Allegory
7. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Literal Language
Satire
Autobiography
Novel
8. 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
Allusion
Iambic Pentameter
Literal
Rising action
9. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Plot
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Personification
Climax
10. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Jargon
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Satire
11. 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
Exposition
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Symbol
12. 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
Narrative techniques
Iambic Pentameter
Simile
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
13. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Literal Language
Exposition
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
14. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Soliloquy
Rhetorical techniques
Examples of folk tales
15. 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
Structure
Iambic Pentameter
Novel
Oxymoron
16. 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
Foreshadowing
Allegory
Falling action
17. 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?
Animal folk tales
Simile
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Climax
18. 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.
Jargon
Theme
Setting
Foreshadowing
19. 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.'
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Analogy
Denouement/Resolution
20. 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
Imagery
Parable
Novel
Tone
21. 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
Animal folk tales
Flashback
Satire
Rhetorical question
22. 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
Allegory
Figurative Language
Irony
Iambic Pentameter
23. 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
Legends
Folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
24. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Connotation
Narrative techniques
Thesis
3 major categories of poetry
25. An accurate history of a single person.
Lyrical
Parable
Biography
Omniscient point of view
26. 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.
Free Verse
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Poetry
27. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Figurative Language
Denouement/Resolution
Literal Language
Allusion
28. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
Rising action
29. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Omniscient point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Hyperbole
Literal Language
30. 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
Autobiography
Omniscient point of view
Allegory
31. 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
Flashback
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Paradox
Tragedy
32. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Style
Euphemism
Soliloquy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
33. 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
Lyrical
Literal
Climax
Irony
34. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Short Story
Examples of folk tales
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
35. 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
Metaphor
Point of view
Oxymoron
Ballad
36. 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
Jargon
Legends
Point of view
37. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Omniscient point of view
Tragedy
Legends
Attitude
38. 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
Allusion
Autobiography
Simile
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
39. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Lyrical
Metaphor
40. 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.)
Soliloquy
Prose
Tragedy
Convention
41. 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
Figurative Language
Legends
Feminine ending
Imagery
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
Hyperbole
Animal folk tales
Tone
43. 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
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Novel
Fairy tales
44. 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.
Autobiography
Omniscient point of view
Euphemism
Thesis
45. 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.
Iambic Pentameter
Jargon
Myths
Climax
46. 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
Oxymoron
Irony
Satire
Simile
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
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Personification
Convention
48. 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
Tone
Irony
Imagery
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
49. 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
Short Story
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Jargon
50. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Allegory
Personification
Biography
Setting