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CSET Literature - 2
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1. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Thesis
Plot
Parody
2. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Metaphor
3 major categories of poetry
3. 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.)
Free Verse
Structure
Paradox
Allusion
4. 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
Analyzing Poetry
Soliloquy
Metaphor
Alliteration
5. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry
Iambic Pentameter
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
6. The main thought expressed by a work.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Figurative Language
Personification
Theme
7. 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.
Irony
Oxymoron
Style
Short Story
8. 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
Autobiography
Omniscient point of view
Point of view
Plot
9. 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.
Genre
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Setting
Ballad
10. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Short Story
Denouement/Resolution
Rhetorical question
Examples of folk tales
11. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
novellas
Lyrical
Rhetorical techniques
Analyzing Poetry
12. 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
Metaphor
Omniscient point of view
Folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
13. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Falling action
Animal folk tales
Denotation
Hyperbole
14. 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
Paradox
Lyrical
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
15. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Diction
Climax
Novel
Structure
16. 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
Examples of folk tales
Personification
Hyperbole
17. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Paradox
Poetry
Iambic Pentameter
18. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
Alliteration
Figurative Language
Hyperbole
19. An accurate history of a single person.
Soliloquy
Parable
Examples of folk tales
Biography
20. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Attitude
Exposition
Denouement/Resolution
Feminine ending
21. 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?
Climax
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Satire
22. 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
Soliloquy
Imagery
Literal
Fairy tales
23. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Legends
Soliloquy
24. 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
Flashback
Novel
Jargon
Simile
25. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Rhetorical question
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Sonnet
Hyperbole
26. 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
Figurative Language
Analogy
Lyrical
Metaphor
27. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Personification
Euphemism
Protagonist
Satire
28. 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
Fairy tales
Metaphor
Allusion
Allegory
29. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Theme
Free Verse
Parable
Diction
30. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Figurative Language
Omniscient point of view
Novel
Imagery
31. 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.
Short Story
Literal Language
Setting
Sonnet
32. 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.'
Metaphor
Examples of folk tales
Foreshadowing
Soliloquy
33. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Satire
Ballad
34. 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
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Folk tales
35. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Diction
Fairy tales
Falling action
Imagery
36. WHO is the speaker? Or who are the speakers? Male or female? WHERE is s/he? - WHEN does this poem take place? - WHAT are the circumstances?
Sonnet
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Free Verse
37. 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
Ballad
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry
38. 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.'
Lyrical
Simile
Novel
Iambic Pentameter
39. 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.)
Climax
Thesis
Convention
Legends
40. 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
Symbol
Exposition
Convention
Oxymoron
41. 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
Literal Language
Protagonist
Imagery
Allegory
42. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Allusion
Imagery
Plot
43. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Parable
Free Verse
Structure
44. 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
Tragedy
Short Story
Connotation
Exposition
45. 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
Style
Jargon
Rhetorical question
Iambic Pentameter
46. 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
Convention
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
47. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Simile
Narrative techniques
Personification
Euphemism
48. 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
Imagery
Omniscient point of view
Free Verse
Rhetorical question
49. 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
Jargon
Oxymoron
Irony
novellas
50. 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
Thesis
Genre
Imagery
Feminine ending