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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Autobiography
Allusion
Sonnet
Rhetorical question
2. 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
Poetry
Parody
Folk tales
3. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Ballad
Fairy tales
Metaphor
4. 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
Foreshadowing
Soliloquy
Metaphor
3 major categories of poetry
5. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Alliteration
Narrative techniques
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
6. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Novel
Rhetorical question
3 major categories of poetry
Narrative techniques
7. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Parody
Short Story
Protagonist
Free Verse
8. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Euphemism
Personification
9. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Diction
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
10. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Irony
Iambic Pentameter
Animal folk tales
Flashback
11. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Parable
Imagery
Figurative Language
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
12. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Literal
Genre
Climax
Denotation
13. 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
Narrative techniques
Metaphor
Exposition
Hyperbole
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).
Thesis
Genre
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
15. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Hyperbole
Convention
Denotation
Personification
16. 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
Sonnet
Fairy tales
Lyrical
Narrative techniques
17. 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
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Ballad
18. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Euphemism
3 major categories of poetry
Satire
Examples of folk tales
19. 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.
Symbol
Climax
Hyperbole
Syllogism
20. 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.
Jargon
Autobiography
Denouement/Resolution
Legends
21. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Hyperbole
Novel
Feminine ending
22. 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
Analyzing Poetry
Plot
Tragedy
23. 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
Climax
Structure
Hyperbole
Style
24. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Hyperbole
3 major categories of poetry
Thesis
Theme
25. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Imagery
Poetry
26. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Alliteration
Imagery
Biography
Style
27. 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
Connotation
Figurative Language
Climax
Point of view
28. 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
Short Story
Rhetorical techniques
Diction
29. 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
Novel
Convention
Genre
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
30. 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
Poetry
Personification
Simile
31. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Theme
Connotation
Personification
32. 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
Myths
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
33. 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.)
Connotation
Convention
novellas
Euphemism
34. The main thought expressed by a work.
Feminine ending
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Theme
35. 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
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Irony
Personification
36. 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.)
Literal
Paradox
Rhetorical question
Rising action
37. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Autobiography
Foreshadowing
Exposition
Syllogism
38. 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
Sonnet
Flashback
Animal folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
39. 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
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Oxymoron
Novel
40. A combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms. (Romeo's line 'feather of lead - bright smoke - cold fire - sick health' contains four examples of the device.)
novellas
Allusion
Denouement/Resolution
Oxymoron
41. 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.'
Myths
Analogy
Parody
Tone
42. 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.
Irony
Hyperbole
Literal Language
Climax
43. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Imagery
Sonnet
Protagonist
Literal Language
44. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
3 major categories of poetry
45. 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
Folk tales
Literal
Falling action
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
46. 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
Irony
Poetry
Jargon
Tragedy
47. 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.
Allegory
Biography
Rising action
Analogy
48. 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
Thesis
Ballad
Short Story
Figurative Language
49. 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
Narrative techniques
Symbol
Flashback
Denotation
50. 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 -
Analogy
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Climax
Theme