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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Personification
Rhetorical question
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Narrative techniques
2. 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
Allegory
Point of view
Literal Language
Rhetorical question
3. 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
Imagery
Plot
Lyrical
4. An author's account of his or her own life.
Rhetorical question
Tone
Theme
Autobiography
5. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Climax
Imagery
Parody
Metaphor
6. The main thought expressed by a work.
Free Verse
Hyperbole
Theme
Iambic Pentameter
7. 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.
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Attitude
8. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Euphemism
Personification
Diction
Prose
9. 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
Folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Fairy tales
Narrative techniques
10. 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?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Metaphor
Parable
11. 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
Animal folk tales
Attitude
Soliloquy
Climax
12. 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
Personification
Iambic Pentameter
Feminine ending
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
13. A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work - especially to a well - known historical or literary event - person - or work. (In Hamlet - when Horatio says - 'ere the mightiest Julius fell -' the allusion is to the death of Juliu
Soliloquy
Plot
Allusion
Literal Language
14. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Literal
Hyperbole
Figurative Language
Protagonist
15. 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.
Fairy tales
Omniscient point of view
Denotation
Thesis
16. Sometimes Shakespeare added an extra unstressed beat at the end of a line to emphasize a character's sense of contemplation (___________) - To BE - / or NOT / to BE: / that IS / the QUES- / - tion
Figurative Language
Literal
Feminine ending
Symbol
17. 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
Satire
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
18. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Exposition
Rising action
Fairy tales
Irony
19. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Point of view
Denotation
Falling action
20. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Paradox
Thesis
Folk tales
Analyzing Poetry
21. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Simile
Satire
Flashback
22. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Genre
Rhetorical question
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Convention
23. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Style
Narrative techniques
Prose
Denouement/Resolution
24. 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.)
Irony
Iambic Pentameter
Paradox
Point of view
25. 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
Oxymoron
Imagery
Attitude
26. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Narrative techniques
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
27. 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
Metaphor
Personification
Allegory
Examples of folk tales
28. 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
Climax
Tragedy
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
29. 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
Poetry
Legends
Symbol
Short Story
30. 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.'
Analogy
Examples of folk tales
Attitude
Connotation
31. Shorter novels are called ___________
Rhetorical question
Imagery
Denotation
novellas
32. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Jargon
Analogy
Diction
Irony
33. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Parable
Satire
Folk tales
Thesis
34. 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.
Rhetorical question
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Style
Irony
35. 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.'
Structure
Figurative Language
Connotation
Metaphor
36. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Analogy
Metaphor
Personification
Novel
37. 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
Lyrical
novellas
Novel
Figurative Language
38. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Foreshadowing
Literal
Examples of folk tales
Figurative Language
39. 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
Rising action
Prose
Figurative Language
40. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Parable
Foreshadowing
Syllogism
41. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Parable
Metaphor
Free Verse
novellas
42. 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
Narrative techniques
Novel
Iambic Pentameter
Irony
43. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Fairy tales
Analogy
Rhetorical techniques
Connotation
44. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
Denouement/Resolution
Hyperbole
Imagery
45. 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).
Exposition
Climax
Genre
Alliteration
46. 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
Satire
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Hyperbole
Short Story
47. 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.)
Rhetorical techniques
Convention
Imagery
Rising action
48. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
49. 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
Structure
Protagonist
Narrative techniques
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
50. 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
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Symbol
Free Verse
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