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CSET English Reading Understanding Text
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Language used for descriptive effect rather than literal meaning and including at least one figure of speech (metaphor - simile - personification)
figurative language
vulgarity
conflict
denouement
2. Verse that tells a story
flash - forward
imagery
character
narrative poetry
3. Six feet per line of poetry
genre
hexameter
hyperbole
characterization
4. A person portrayed in a literary work
point of view
caesura
character
apostrophe
5. A metrical foot; _ _/ (unstressed - unstressed - stressed)
magic realism
anthropomorphism
epiphany
anapestic (anapest)
6. The methods - direct and indirect - used by a writer to reveal a character's personality
narrator
characterization
flashback
trimeter
7. Type of diction; language widely considered crude - disgusting - and offensive
regionalism
vulgarity
oxymoron
assonance
8. Two feet per line of poetry
monometer
heptameter (or septameter)
inversion
dimeter
9. A question to which no answer is expected or the answer is obvious
assonance
denotation
slang
rhetorical question
10. An occurrence is the opposite of what was expected
memoir
denouement
situational irony
epitaph
11. A form of dramatic poetry in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
character
simile
dramatic monologue
denotation
12. The assignment/application of human characteristics to animals - inanimate object - or gods (ex: Sponge Bob - Bugs Bunny)
tone
narrative poetry
anthropomorphism
jargon
13. A narrative song or poem
octameter
plot
ballad
flash - forward
14. An author's choice of words - based on their effectiveness for the author's purpose
refrain
epilogue
magic realism
diction
15. The suggested or implied meaning associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition; can be positive - neutral - or negative
theme
enjambment
connotation
Transcendentalism
16. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is substituted for another that is related (ex: the crown=the king of a country)
hero
metonymy
characterization
setting
17. A significant word - phrase - idea - description - or other element repeated throughout a literary work and related to the theme
conflict
jargon
caesura
motif
18. The rhythmic rise and fall of oral language
interior monologue
cadence
narrative
vulgarity
19. A word or phrase that is so overused that it has lost its expressive power
connotation
epigraph
cliche
rhythm
20. A narrator who gives a faulty or distorted account of the events in a story; a child as a narrator might misinterpret someone's actions
spondaic (spondee)
repetition
unreliable narrator
end rhyme
21. The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds
allusion
spondaic (spondee)
end rhyme
assonance
22. A metrical foot; _/ (unstressed - stressed)
figure of speech
regionalism
iambic (iamb)
profanity
23. Eight feet per line of poetry
octameter
parallelism
motif
Third person
24. Reference to a well - known person - place - or situation from history/art/music/work of literature
dialect
drama
allusion
pentameter
25. In drama - a long speech given by a character who is alone on stage; reveals the inner thoughts and emotions of that character
soliloquy
allusion
climax
synecdoche
26. A literary work in which all or most of the characters - events and setting stand for ideas or generalization about life; have a moral or lesson
genre
anthropomorphism
epigram
allegory
27. Comparison of two things that are alike in some ways
theme
verbal irony
analogy
oxymoron
28. A sudden intuitive recognition of the essence or meaning of something
existentialism
epiphany
trimeter
rhythm
29. Occurs when words include sounds that are similar but not identical (ex: tone and gone)
motif
metaphor
internal rhyme
slant rhyme
30. Type of diction; informal language used by a particular group among themselves
regionalism
narrative
spondaic (spondee)
slang
31. Conversation between characters in a literary work
theme
rhyme scheme
Foot
dialogue
32. The literal - or dictionary - meaning of a word
dramatic monologue
denotation
theme
inversion
33. Rhyming that occurs within a single line
foreshadowing
archaic
internal rhyme
connotation
34. A lesson about right and wrong conduct taught in a fable or parable
tetrameter
iambic (iamb)
irony
moral
35. Type of diction; expressions usually accepted in informal situations
flashback
hubris
metaphor
colloquialisms
36. The recurrence of sounds - words - phrases - lines - or stanzas in a literary work or speech
tetrameter
dramatic poetry
first person
repetition
37. The pattern formed by end rhyme in a stanza or poem; indicated by the assignment of a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme
soliloquy
dimeter
monologue
rhyme scheme
38. The narrator knows everything about the characters and events and reveals details that even the characters themselves could not reveal
pentameter
hexameter
omniscient
internal rhyme
39. A wise saying - usually short and to the point; similar to epigram or maxim
aphorism
repetition
internal rhyme
monometer
40. A literary device in which the author interrupts the chronological order of a narrative to show something that happened in the past
heroic couplet
jargon
protagonist
flashback
41. A figure of speech in which a speaker addresses an absent person - inanimate object or idea
archaic
apostrophe
narrative poetry
figurative language
42. A figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole or a whole is used for its parts (ex: All hands on deck)
narrative
rhetoric
synecdoche
dramatic poetry
43. The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of one character
existentialism
tetrameter
limited omniscient
apostrophe
44. The repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words
moral
rhyme
anapestic (anapest)
rhetoric
45. The point of view/perspective of a story when it is told by someone who stands outside the story
onomatopoeia
Third person
dialect
pentameter
46. A category or type of literature - defined by its style - form - and content (ex: poetry - drama - fiction - and nonfiction)
figurative language
profanity
slant rhyme
genre
47. The feeling a literary work evokes in a reader - such as sadness - peace - or joy
dramatic irony
verbal irony
mood
allegory
48. The literary representation of a character's free - flowing thought processes - memories - and emotions; often does not use conventional sentence structure or rules of grammar
stream of consciousness
rhyme scheme
figurative language
free verse
49. The person who tells a story; may be a part of the story or an outside observer
narrator
epigram
trimeter
pentameter
50. A metrical foot; // (stressed - stressed)
spondaic (spondee)
setting
dramatic monologue
rhythm