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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Fairy tales
Structure
Climax
Sonnet
2. 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
Tragedy
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Point of view
3. 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
Novel
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Protagonist
Figurative Language
4. 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.
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Theme
Lyrical
5. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Figurative Language
Simile
Denouement/Resolution
Thesis
6. 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?
3 major categories of poetry
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry
Examples of folk tales
7. 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.
Iambic Pentameter
Novel
Setting
Connotation
8. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Falling action
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Novel
Folk tales
9. 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
Foreshadowing
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Symbol
10. 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
Personification
novellas
Paradox
Allusion
11. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Hyperbole
Personification
Falling action
Alliteration
12. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Rhetorical techniques
Denotation
13. 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
Tone
Folk tales
Flashback
14. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
3 major categories of poetry
Sonnet
Convention
Irony
15. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Irony
Novel
Tragedy
novellas
16. 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.)
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Imagery
Alliteration
Paradox
17. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Allusion
Examples of folk tales
Tragedy
Iambic Pentameter
18. 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
Convention
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Genre
Figurative Language
19. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Irony
Prose
Biography
Connotation
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
Irony
Style
Oxymoron
Tone
21. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Symbol
Iambic Pentameter
Lyrical
Syllogism
22. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Autobiography
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Alliteration
Euphemism
23. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Hyperbole
Literal Language
24. 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
Theme
Iambic Pentameter
Irony
Ballad
25. 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
Soliloquy
Rising action
Satire
Parable
26. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Analyzing Poetry
Tragedy
Rising action
Exposition
27. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Genre
Oxymoron
Personification
Denotation
28. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Free Verse
Metaphor
Omniscient point of view
Tragedy
29. 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
Jargon
Parable
Satire
Narrative techniques
30. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Point of view
Allusion
Imagery
Falling action
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.)
Attitude
3 major categories of poetry
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Metaphor
32. 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
Setting
Hyperbole
Euphemism
Poetry
33. An author's account of his or her own life.
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Narrative techniques
Autobiography
34. 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.
Style
Rising action
Rhetorical techniques
Hyperbole
35. 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
Fairy tales
Denotation
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
36. 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
Simile
Syllogism
Iambic Pentameter
Hyperbole
37. 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
Foreshadowing
Climax
Fairy tales
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
38. 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.
Literal
Style
Exposition
Metaphor
39. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Paradox
Diction
3 major categories of poetry
Falling action
40. 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
Imagery
Irony
Feminine ending
Tragedy
41. 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.)
Structure
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Convention
Personification
42. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Euphemism
Attitude
Autobiography
novellas
43. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Euphemism
3 major categories of poetry
Convention
Literal
44. 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
Animal folk tales
Fairy tales
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Irony
45. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Protagonist
Theme
Hyperbole
Prose
46. 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.'
Falling action
Hyperbole
Simile
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
47. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Thesis
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
48. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Animal folk tales
Imagery
Legends
Free Verse
49. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Denotation
Alliteration
Diction
Rhetorical question
50. 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
Omniscient point of view
Irony
Flashback
Narrative techniques