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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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.
Free Verse
Jargon
Poetry
Literal
2. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Prose
Symbol
3 major categories of poetry
Allusion
3. 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.)
Allusion
Convention
Irony
Lyrical
4. 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
Attitude
Syllogism
Figurative Language
Literal Language
5. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Metaphor
Animal folk tales
Soliloquy
Denotation
6. 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
Tragedy
Examples of folk tales
Diction
7. 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
Animal folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Satire
Personification
8. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Climax
Falling action
Theme
Short Story
9. 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.
Allusion
Imagery
Imagery
Style
10. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Falling action
Hyperbole
Flashback
11. 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
Rising action
Analyzing Poetry
Figurative Language
Poetry
12. 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.
Myths
Setting
Novel
Genre
13. 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
Lyrical
Simile
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Satire
14. 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
Fairy tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Structure
Imagery
15. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Parable
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Structure
Metaphor
16. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Foreshadowing
Simile
3 major categories of poetry
Short Story
17. 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.)
Paradox
Figurative Language
Diction
Plot
18. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Soliloquy
Climax
Attitude
19. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Imagery
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analogy
20. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
Imagery
21. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Short Story
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Examples of folk tales
22. An author's account of his or her own life.
Setting
Feminine ending
Genre
Autobiography
23. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Literal
24. 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.'
Biography
Rhetorical question
Metaphor
Autobiography
25. 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
Hyperbole
Attitude
Narrative techniques
Imagery
26. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Diction
Paradox
Folk tales
Attitude
27. 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?
Literal Language
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry
3 major categories of poetry
28. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Novel
Examples of folk tales
Rhetorical question
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
29. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Feminine ending
Euphemism
30. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Personification
Climax
Denotation
Satire
31. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Personification
Folk tales
Omniscient point of view
32. 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
Figurative Language
Hyperbole
Soliloquy
Biography
33. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Feminine ending
Figurative Language
34. 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?
Simile
Allegory
Fairy tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
35. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Analyzing Poetry
Rising action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Protagonist
36. 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
Hyperbole
Iambic Pentameter
Myths
Short Story
37. 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
Denouement/Resolution
Style
Short Story
Symbol
38. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Irony
Parody
Oxymoron
Examples of folk tales
39. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Falling action
Foreshadowing
Euphemism
Figurative Language
40. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Tragedy
Symbol
Plot
Rising action
41. 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
Figurative Language
Genre
Free Verse
Narrative techniques
42. 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
Legends
Theme
Imagery
Style
43. 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
Genre
Foreshadowing
Attitude
Tragedy
44. 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
Parody
Novel
Imagery
45. 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
Symbol
Setting
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
46. 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
Lyrical
Prose
Myths
Point of view
47. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Protagonist
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Novel
Satire
48. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Metaphor
Free Verse
49. Shorter novels are called ___________
Tragedy
Figurative Language
Legends
novellas
50. 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
Hyperbole
Examples of folk tales
Alliteration
Flashback