SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CSET Literature - 2
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
cset
,
literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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.
Climax
Prose
Sonnet
Literal Language
2. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Symbol
Genre
Free Verse
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
3. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Biography
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Euphemism
Prose
4. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Metaphor
Novel
Paradox
5. 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: Is the meaning clear?
Legends
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
6. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Figurative Language
Rhetorical question
Parody
Hyperbole
7. 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
Flashback
Satire
Omniscient point of view
Free Verse
8. 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
Jargon
Connotation
Paradox
Short Story
9. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Folk tales
Foreshadowing
10. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Folk tales
Symbol
Prose
Denouement/Resolution
11. 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.'
Sonnet
Metaphor
Prose
Soliloquy
12. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Examples of folk tales
Analogy
Figurative Language
Figurative Language
13. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Simile
Short Story
Personification
14. 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
Short Story
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Imagery
15. 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.
Rising action
Tone
Jargon
Point of view
16. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Plot
Fairy tales
Lyrical
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
17. 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.)
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Attitude
18. 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
Climax
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Genre
19. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Convention
Analogy
20. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Poetry
Denotation
Figurative Language
Literal
21. 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
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Irony
Analogy
22. 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?
Rhetorical question
Legends
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Poetry
23. The main thought expressed by a work.
Parable
Theme
Foreshadowing
Connotation
24. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Parable
Symbol
Sonnet
Hyperbole
25. 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.'
Paradox
Euphemism
Analogy
Setting
26. 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
Personification
Thesis
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Point of view
27. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Imagery
3 major categories of poetry
Falling action
28. 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.
Hyperbole
3 major categories of poetry
Metaphor
Poetry
29. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Personification
Imagery
Tragedy
Euphemism
30. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Literal
Omniscient point of view
31. 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
novellas
Soliloquy
Falling action
Irony
32. 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
Parable
Parody
Folk tales
Irony
33. 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.
Examples of folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Lyrical
34. 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
Jargon
Folk tales
Analogy
Narrative techniques
35. 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
Plot
Oxymoron
Autobiography
36. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Personification
Lyrical
Parody
Diction
37. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Hyperbole
Lyrical
Imagery
Rhetorical question
38. 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.)
Climax
Oxymoron
Feminine ending
Allegory
39. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Irony
Metaphor
Flashback
40. 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.
Iambic Pentameter
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Exposition
Rising action
41. 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
Flashback
Legends
3 major categories of poetry
Short Story
42. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Legends
Parable
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
43. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Alliteration
Exposition
Theme
44. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Rhetorical question
Oxymoron
Ballad
Tragedy
45. 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
Imagery
Thesis
Figurative Language
Syllogism
46. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Personification
3 major categories of poetry
Exposition
Denotation
47. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Parody
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
48. 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
Myths
Folk tales
Convention
49. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
novellas
Fairy tales
Animal folk tales
Alliteration
50. 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
Point of view
Novel
Flashback