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CSET Literature - 2
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1. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Parable
Climax
Omniscient point of view
novellas
2. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Rising action
3 major categories of poetry
3. Shorter novels are called ___________
Allusion
Plot
Diction
novellas
4. 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
Analogy
Iambic Pentameter
Genre
Poetry
5. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
Plot
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
6. 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
Lyrical
Short Story
Animal folk tales
7. 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?
Fairy tales
Literal Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
8. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
novellas
Structure
Syllogism
9. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Simile
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Denotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
10. 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
Irony
Rhetorical question
Folk tales
Connotation
11. 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
Biography
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Parable
12. 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?
Analyzing Poetry
Metaphor
Folk tales
Theme
13. 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.
Literal
Metaphor
Legends
Rising action
14. 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
Animal folk tales
Simile
Figurative Language
Omniscient point of view
15. 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.'
Rhetorical question
Alliteration
Metaphor
Legends
16. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Imagery
Alliteration
Lyrical
Structure
17. 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
Exposition
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Denotation
18. 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
Satire
Tone
Oxymoron
novellas
19. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Hyperbole
Protagonist
Rising action
novellas
20. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Free Verse
Syllogism
Denouement/Resolution
Irony
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
Convention
Biography
Genre
Flashback
22. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Novel
Literal
23. 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.
Symbol
Hyperbole
Rising action
Examples of folk tales
24. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Hyperbole
Denotation
Denouement/Resolution
Personification
25. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Imagery
3 major categories of poetry
Personification
Animal folk tales
26. 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
Literal
Animal folk tales
Figurative Language
Flashback
27. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Diction
Sonnet
Climax
Structure
28. 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.)
Folk tales
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Convention
29. 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 -
Imagery
Satire
Climax
Hyperbole
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
Narrative techniques
Tone
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
31. 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.)
Biography
Figurative Language
Simile
Attitude
32. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Symbol
Parable
33. An accurate history of a single person.
Free Verse
Examples of folk tales
Biography
Attitude
34. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Theme
Hyperbole
Connotation
Rhetorical question
35. 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
Personification
Sonnet
Iambic Pentameter
36. 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
Imagery
Omniscient point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Metaphor
37. 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
Poetry
Connotation
Alliteration
Simile
38. 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.
Omniscient point of view
Autobiography
Setting
Flashback
39. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Denotation
Sonnet
Personification
Oxymoron
40. 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
Rhetorical question
Feminine ending
Plot
41. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Falling action
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Feminine ending
Parable
42. 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
Literal
Imagery
Soliloquy
Autobiography
43. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Exposition
Parable
Parody
Sonnet
44. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Legends
Analogy
Euphemism
Connotation
45. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Tone
Imagery
Convention
3 major categories of poetry
46. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Convention
Imagery
Rhetorical techniques
Euphemism
47. 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?
Figurative Language
Convention
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Tone
48. 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
Simile
Legends
Structure
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
49. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Omniscient point of view
Hyperbole
Parable
Exposition
50. 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
Parable
Metaphor
Iambic Pentameter