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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Irony
2. 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
Feminine ending
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Literal Language
Irony
3. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Legends
Literal
Rhetorical techniques
Myths
4. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Irony
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
5. Shorter novels are called ___________
novellas
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Syllogism
Satire
6. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
3 major categories of poetry
Point of view
Denouement/Resolution
Genre
7. 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.
Genre
Jargon
Animal folk tales
novellas
8. 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
Legends
Figurative Language
Irony
Jargon
9. Prose narratives that follow traditional storylines that arise from oral traditions in histories - As old as language - Adapt from culture to culture - Original author is never known - Arise through the process of recombining traditional elements (mo
Imagery
Rhetorical question
Folk tales
Personification
10. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Plot
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry
Rhetorical techniques
11. 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
Symbol
Narrative techniques
Imagery
Climax
12. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Setting
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Flashback
Examples of folk tales
13. An author's account of his or her own life.
Denouement/Resolution
Legends
Tone
Autobiography
14. 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.)
Satire
Paradox
Climax
Personification
15. 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
Satire
Tone
Parable
Fairy tales
16. An accurate history of a single person.
Allegory
Biography
Metaphor
Feminine ending
17. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Climax
Symbol
Euphemism
Free Verse
18. 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?
Convention
Personification
Analyzing Poetry
Biography
19. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Foreshadowing
Prose
Novel
Iambic Pentameter
20. 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.
Denouement/Resolution
Attitude
Hyperbole
Iambic Pentameter
21. 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
Climax
Flashback
Novel
Theme
22. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Genre
Narrative techniques
Sonnet
Ballad
23. 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
Literal Language
Tragedy
24. 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.'
Protagonist
Diction
Allusion
Analogy
25. 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
Connotation
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Lyrical
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
26. 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
Denouement/Resolution
Plot
Irony
Iambic Pentameter
27. 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.
Rising action
Attitude
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Prose
28. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Hyperbole
Thesis
Rhetorical question
Setting
29. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Jargon
Hyperbole
Rhetorical question
Plot
30. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Thesis
31. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Hyperbole
Attitude
Syllogism
32. 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 -
Metaphor
Imagery
Climax
Analogy
33. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Figurative Language
Diction
Personification
Parody
34. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Paradox
Ballad
Irony
Connotation
35. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Satire
Iambic Pentameter
Personification
36. 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
Syllogism
Poetry
Metaphor
Personification
37. 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
Folk tales
Point of view
Theme
Structure
38. The main thought expressed by a work.
Paradox
Theme
Rhetorical question
Tone
39. 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).
Allegory
Convention
Genre
Simile
40. 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.
Theme
Folk tales
Literal Language
Narrative techniques
41. 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
Tone
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Style
Novel
42. 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
Figurative Language
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Denotation
43. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Hyperbole
Setting
44. 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.
Myths
Style
Denouement/Resolution
Satire
45. 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
Allusion
Poetry
Fairy tales
Short Story
46. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
3 major categories of poetry
Omniscient point of view
Literal
Irony
47. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Biography
Syllogism
Folk tales
Tragedy
48. 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
Attitude
Legends
Omniscient point of view
Literal
49. 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.)
Attitude
Folk tales
Iambic Pentameter
Alliteration
50. 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.
Analogy
Climax
Metaphor
Irony