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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Free Verse
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Iambic Pentameter
Tone
2. 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
Soliloquy
Analogy
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
3. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Point of view
Alliteration
Metaphor
Novel
4. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Folk tales
Sonnet
Legends
Hyperbole
5. 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
Parody
Convention
Oxymoron
6. 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
Connotation
Jargon
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
7. 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
Narrative techniques
Symbol
Plot
3 major categories of poetry
8. 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
Satire
Animal folk tales
Genre
9. 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.
Oxymoron
Setting
Protagonist
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
10. 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.)
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Allusion
Convention
11. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Protagonist
Point of view
Autobiography
Allusion
12. 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 -
Attitude
Setting
Oxymoron
Climax
13. 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.)
Literal
Oxymoron
Connotation
Animal folk tales
14. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Structure
Style
Syllogism
Examples of folk tales
15. The main thought expressed by a work.
Climax
Theme
Structure
Oxymoron
16. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Oxymoron
Plot
Thesis
Exposition
17. 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
Analyzing Poetry
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
18. 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
Theme
Short Story
Parable
Novel
19. 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
Diction
Analogy
Allegory
Exposition
20. 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.
Jargon
Satire
Denouement/Resolution
Rising action
21. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Legends
Symbol
Genre
22. 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.)
Simile
Plot
Fairy tales
Attitude
23. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Flashback
Tragedy
Lyrical
Falling action
24. 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: What is the dramatic situation?
Omniscient point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Novel
25. 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
Figurative Language
Legends
Connotation
Euphemism
26. 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
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Hyperbole
27. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Literal
Figurative Language
28. An accurate history of a single person.
novellas
Satire
Rhetorical question
Biography
29. 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.
Tragedy
Myths
Allegory
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
30. 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
Genre
Figurative Language
Irony
Autobiography
31. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Sonnet
Tone
Climax
Personification
32. 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
Genre
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Point of view
Imagery
33. 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?
Falling action
Lyrical
Feminine ending
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
34. 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
Thesis
Feminine ending
Rising action
35. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Simile
Setting
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
Legends
Figurative Language
Allusion
Syllogism
37. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Short Story
Tragedy
Analogy
Personification
38. 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
Metaphor
Paradox
Imagery
Thesis
39. 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
Feminine ending
Setting
40. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Animal folk tales
Soliloquy
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Structure
41. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Denotation
Climax
42. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Legends
Imagery
Point of view
Denouement/Resolution
43. 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.'
Structure
Simile
Allegory
Plot
44. 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
Imagery
Alliteration
Sonnet
45. 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
Theme
Folk tales
Short Story
Analogy
46. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Jargon
novellas
Animal folk tales
Parable
47. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Flashback
Iambic Pentameter
Rhetorical question
Falling action
48. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
3 major categories of poetry
Iambic Pentameter
Climax
Allusion
49. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Animal folk tales
Free Verse
Ballad
50. 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
Novel
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?