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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Feminine ending
Imagery
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Symbol
2. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Animal folk tales
Literal
Soliloquy
Convention
3. Shorter novels are called ___________
Tone
Personification
novellas
Ballad
4. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Rising action
Fairy tales
Literal
5. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Euphemism
Oxymoron
Climax
Attitude
6. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Free Verse
Alliteration
Tone
7. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Parody
Connotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Attitude
8. 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
Imagery
Rising action
Tone
Foreshadowing
9. 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.
Rising action
Animal folk tales
Tone
Climax
10. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Attitude
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Personification
Diction
11. 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
Metaphor
Ballad
Structure
12. 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
Foreshadowing
Sonnet
Metaphor
Fairy tales
13. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Denotation
Narrative techniques
Personification
Hyperbole
14. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Parable
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Satire
Narrative techniques
15. 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 -
Sonnet
Literal Language
Rhetorical question
Climax
16. 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
Animal folk tales
Irony
Symbol
Examples of folk tales
17. 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.
Feminine ending
Setting
Poetry
Biography
18. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Hyperbole
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Parody
19. 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
Legends
Attitude
Literal
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
20. 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.)
Satire
Attitude
Fairy tales
Irony
21. 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.)
Plot
Parable
Autobiography
Oxymoron
22. 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.
Alliteration
Metaphor
Omniscient point of view
Analogy
23. An author's account of his or her own life.
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Autobiography
Feminine ending
Legends
24. The mode of expression in a language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author. - Elements/techniques include diction - syntax - figurative language - imagery - selection of detail - sound effects - and tone.
Fairy tales
Setting
Style
Alliteration
25. 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
Imagery
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Parody
26. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
Euphemism
Tragedy
Analogy
27. 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
Hyperbole
Soliloquy
Convention
Symbol
28. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Legends
Thesis
Short Story
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
29. 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
Short Story
Metaphor
Allegory
Allusion
30. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Figurative Language
Hyperbole
Denouement/Resolution
Simile
31. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Ballad
Figurative Language
Parody
Falling action
32. 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.'
Figurative Language
Novel
Simile
Metaphor
33. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Novel
Rhetorical question
Analyzing Poetry
Personification
34. 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
Novel
Hyperbole
Symbol
Animal folk tales
35. 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
Legends
Rhetorical techniques
Poetry
Novel
36. 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
Short Story
Imagery
Examples of folk tales
Figurative Language
37. 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
Free Verse
Plot
Poetry
38. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Theme
Climax
Tragedy
Figurative Language
39. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Climax
Legends
Genre
Protagonist
40. 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
Attitude
Climax
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
41. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Denouement/Resolution
Biography
Parable
Flashback
42. 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.
Euphemism
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Convention
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
43. The arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of a work. - The most common principles are series (A - B - C - D - E) - contrast (A vs. B - C vs. D - E vs. A) and repetition (AA
Alliteration
Theme
Euphemism
Structure
44. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Omniscient point of view
Climax
Climax
Sonnet
45. 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
Novel
Soliloquy
Narrative techniques
Figurative Language
46. 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.
Oxymoron
Falling action
Jargon
Fairy tales
47. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Short Story
Novel
novellas
Personification
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?
Paradox
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
49. 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
Imagery
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Metaphor
50. 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?
Structure
Literal Language
Hyperbole