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. 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
Poetry
Connotation
Hyperbole
Biography
2. 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
Analogy
Tragedy
Hyperbole
Satire
3. 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
Analogy
Rhetorical question
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
4. An accurate history of a single person.
Legends
Biography
Allegory
Imagery
5. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Literal
Fairy tales
Rising action
Free Verse
6. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Folk tales
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Novel
7. 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
Literal Language
Myths
Legends
Symbol
8. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Alliteration
Thesis
Symbol
Diction
9. The main thought expressed by a work.
Feminine ending
Theme
Legends
Foreshadowing
10. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Free Verse
Novel
Plot
Rhetorical techniques
11. 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
Style
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
12. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Irony
Soliloquy
Thesis
Satire
13. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Myths
Novel
Climax
Denouement/Resolution
14. 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
Symbol
Syllogism
Examples of folk tales
Exposition
15. 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
Soliloquy
Narrative techniques
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
16. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Personification
Genre
Setting
17. 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.
Parody
Connotation
Rising action
Oxymoron
18. 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
Genre
Thesis
Short Story
19. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Literal
Imagery
Symbol
Tragedy
20. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Prose
Rhetorical question
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Personification
21. 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
Novel
Literal Language
Metaphor
22. 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
Alliteration
Free Verse
Irony
Figurative Language
23. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Structure
Iambic Pentameter
Hyperbole
24. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Omniscient point of view
Irony
Plot
Ballad
25. 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
Literal Language
Soliloquy
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
26. 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.
Short Story
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Plot
Alliteration
27. 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
Attitude
Point of view
3 major categories of poetry
Hyperbole
28. 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.)
Feminine ending
Personification
Falling action
Convention
29. 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
Poetry
Tone
Point of view
Flashback
30. 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.)
Climax
Attitude
Iambic Pentameter
Imagery
31. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Simile
3 major categories of poetry
32. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Free Verse
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Parody
3 major categories of poetry
33. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Satire
novellas
Parable
Iambic Pentameter
34. 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.
Point of view
Irony
Jargon
Structure
35. 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.
Diction
Free Verse
Imagery
Hyperbole
36. 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.'
Myths
Figurative Language
Analogy
Flashback
37. 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
Analogy
Imagery
Plot
Poetry
38. 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
Figurative Language
Iambic Pentameter
Plot
Tone
39. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Prose
Oxymoron
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
40. 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
Allusion
Genre
Hyperbole
Irony
41. The point of highest interest in a novel - short story - or play in terms of the conflict - the point with the most action - or the turning point for the protagonist.
Imagery
Ballad
Denouement/Resolution
Climax
42. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Exposition
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Style
43. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Tone
Climax
Metaphor
Hyperbole
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
Exposition
Foreshadowing
Fairy tales
Analogy
45. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Prose
Hyperbole
Denotation
Allusion
46. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Climax
3 major categories of poetry
Imagery
47. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Setting
Climax
Convention
Euphemism
48. 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?
Hyperbole
Rhetorical techniques
Examples of folk tales
Analyzing Poetry
49. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Free Verse
Analyzing Poetry
Protagonist
Climax
50. Shorter novels are called ___________
novellas
Euphemism
Structure
Denotation