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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Theme
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Figurative Language
2. 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
Euphemism
Style
Setting
3. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Paradox
Myths
Biography
Euphemism
4. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Iambic Pentameter
Connotation
Literal Language
5. 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
Oxymoron
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Personification
6. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Convention
Allusion
Narrative techniques
7. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Protagonist
Figurative Language
Jargon
8. 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.'
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Fairy tales
Metaphor
Tragedy
9. The main thought expressed by a work.
Theme
Structure
Thesis
Short Story
10. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
3 major categories of poetry
Allegory
11. 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
Climax
Syllogism
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
12. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Personification
Irony
Oxymoron
Autobiography
13. 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
Exposition
Iambic Pentameter
Folk tales
Figurative Language
14. 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
Personification
Protagonist
Animal folk tales
15. 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
Myths
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Protagonist
Structure
16. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Free Verse
Thesis
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.)
Tone
Analyzing Poetry
Paradox
Syllogism
18. 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
Jargon
novellas
Soliloquy
19. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Climax
Tragedy
Analogy
Parody
20. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Diction
Thesis
Exposition
Prose
21. 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.
Autobiography
Allegory
Jargon
Symbol
22. An accurate history of a single person.
Biography
novellas
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Syllogism
23. 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
Short Story
Iambic Pentameter
Analogy
24. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Animal folk tales
Simile
Parable
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
25. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Allusion
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Flashback
Novel
26. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Denouement/Resolution
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Paradox
27. 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
Allegory
Symbol
Allusion
Prose
28. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Literal
Diction
Irony
Simile
29. 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?
Feminine ending
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Poetry
novellas
30. 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
Literal
Analyzing Poetry
Allegory
Folk tales
31. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Parable
Soliloquy
32. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Allegory
Rising action
Denouement/Resolution
Soliloquy
33. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Prose
Euphemism
Short Story
Foreshadowing
34. 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
Tragedy
Free Verse
Imagery
35. 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.'
Prose
Analogy
Syllogism
Euphemism
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
Style
Free Verse
Metaphor
Myths
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
Point of view
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Allusion
Simile
38. 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
Narrative techniques
Biography
Analogy
Fairy tales
39. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Diction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Point of view
Plot
40. Any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told - May be omniscient - limited to that of a single character - or limited to that of several characters - as well as other possibilities. - The teller may use the first person and/or th
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Foreshadowing
Omniscient point of view
Point of view
41. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Climax
Narrative techniques
Soliloquy
42. 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
Ballad
Diction
Personification
Novel
43. 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.
Allegory
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Parable
3 major categories of poetry
44. 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
Metaphor
Tone
Legends
Convention
45. 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
Climax
Metaphor
Theme
46. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Novel
Tragedy
Tone
Analyzing Poetry
47. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Oxymoron
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
48. 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.
Novel
Folk tales
Omniscient point of view
Denotation
49. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Style
Rhetorical techniques
Paradox
Falling action
50. 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
Irony
Figurative Language
Soliloquy
Imagery