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CSET Literature - 2
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1. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Soliloquy
Irony
2. 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
Imagery
Animal folk tales
Satire
Poetry
3. 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.
Exposition
Legends
Style
Connotation
4. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Simile
Diction
Imagery
Plot
5. 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
Rising action
Imagery
Parody
6. 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
Diction
Allusion
Thesis
Metaphor
7. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Imagery
Point of view
Hyperbole
Structure
8. 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
Foreshadowing
Prose
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Soliloquy
9. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Satire
Iambic Pentameter
Diction
Connotation
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
Novel
Symbol
Fairy tales
Allusion
11. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Theme
12. 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.)
Convention
Fairy tales
Protagonist
Parody
13. 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
Theme
Fairy tales
Personification
Feminine ending
14. 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?
Theme
Allusion
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
novellas
15. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Rising action
3 major categories of poetry
Hyperbole
Sonnet
16. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Diction
Rhetorical question
Convention
Iambic Pentameter
17. 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
Narrative techniques
Examples of folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
18. An author's account of his or her own life.
Simile
Paradox
Autobiography
Convention
19. 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
Prose
Oxymoron
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
20. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Free Verse
Parody
Narrative techniques
Examples of folk tales
21. 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).
Climax
Short Story
Protagonist
Genre
22. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Analogy
Lyrical
Paradox
Sonnet
23. 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.)
Hyperbole
Syllogism
Rhetorical techniques
Paradox
24. 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
Lyrical
Personification
Allegory
3 major categories of poetry
25. 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
Climax
Irony
Paradox
Foreshadowing
26. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Denotation
Alliteration
27. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Simile
Novel
Examples of folk tales
Sonnet
28. 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
Allegory
Personification
Short Story
Parody
29. 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
Imagery
Myths
Autobiography
Allusion
30. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Personification
Syllogism
31. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Alliteration
32. 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
3 major categories of poetry
Syllogism
Omniscient point of view
Convention
33. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Fairy tales
Protagonist
Hyperbole
Attitude
34. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Alliteration
Euphemism
Sonnet
Prose
35. 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
Novel
Rising action
Biography
Imagery
36. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Figurative Language
Exposition
Biography
Lyrical
37. 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
Novel
Soliloquy
Falling action
38. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Autobiography
Exposition
Denouement/Resolution
Narrative techniques
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
Foreshadowing
Style
Short Story
Iambic Pentameter
40. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Examples of folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Novel
Prose
41. 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
Parable
Fairy tales
Setting
42. 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
Jargon
Feminine ending
Parody
3 major categories of poetry
43. 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.
Simile
Analogy
Figurative Language
Climax
44. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
Theme
Protagonist
Free Verse
45. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Folk tales
Animal folk tales
Plot
Alliteration
46. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Imagery
Parable
Setting
47. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Rhetorical question
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
48. 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
Jargon
Euphemism
Allusion
Exposition
49. 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
Narrative techniques
Satire
Rhetorical techniques
Ballad
50. 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
Hyperbole
Euphemism
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Rising action