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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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Lyrical
Animal folk tales
2. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Legends
Plot
Analogy
3. 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
Parable
Poetry
Satire
Imagery
4. 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
Point of view
Falling action
Style
Analyzing Poetry
5. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Biography
Connotation
Protagonist
Ballad
6. 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).
Genre
Rhetorical question
Soliloquy
Poetry
7. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Parody
Rhetorical techniques
Rising action
Plot
8. 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.
Thesis
Climax
Exposition
Style
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
Genre
Parable
Folk tales
Iambic Pentameter
10. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Free Verse
Climax
Personification
Analyzing Poetry
11. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Denotation
Attitude
3 major categories of poetry
Rhetorical question
12. 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.
Jargon
Rhetorical question
Climax
Exposition
13. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Protagonist
Flashback
Rhetorical question
Oxymoron
14. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Climax
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Parody
15. 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.
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Literal Language
Symbol
16. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Parody
Theme
Personification
Novel
17. A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term 'as -' 'like -' or 'than.' - 'The black bat night' rather than
Irony
Satire
Parody
Metaphor
18. 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
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Iambic Pentameter
19. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Imagery
Alliteration
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
20. 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
Simile
Parable
Figurative Language
21. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Folk tales
Falling action
Style
Irony
22. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Omniscient point of view
Myths
23. 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
Fairy tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Autobiography
Narrative techniques
24. An author's account of his or her own life.
Autobiography
Plot
Legends
Short Story
25. 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
Structure
Climax
Denotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
26. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Connotation
Iambic Pentameter
Folk tales
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
27. 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.'
Autobiography
Soliloquy
Metaphor
Novel
28. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Attitude
Literal
Novel
Tragedy
29. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Soliloquy
Climax
Ballad
Hyperbole
30. 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
Fairy tales
Allegory
Climax
Free Verse
31. 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
Metaphor
Rhetorical question
Iambic Pentameter
32. 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
Irony
Climax
Omniscient point of view
Feminine ending
33. 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.)
Poetry
Novel
Short Story
Oxymoron
34. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Short Story
Omniscient point of view
Euphemism
Imagery
35. 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.
Literal
Omniscient point of view
Climax
novellas
36. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Legends
Rhetorical question
Flashback
Hyperbole
37. 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.
Legends
Setting
Denotation
Imagery
38. 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
Diction
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Fairy tales
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
39. 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
Parody
Satire
Rising action
Protagonist
40. 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
Imagery
Connotation
Hyperbole
41. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Setting
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Narrative techniques
42. Shorter novels are called ___________
novellas
Biography
Analyzing Poetry
Syllogism
43. The main thought expressed by a work.
Novel
Theme
Tone
Flashback
44. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Personification
Fairy tales
Rhetorical question
Hyperbole
45. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Omniscient point of view
Sonnet
Irony
Personification
46. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Jargon
Prose
Omniscient point of view
Folk tales
47. An accurate history of a single person.
Biography
3 major categories of poetry
Omniscient point of view
Point of view
48. 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
Metaphor
Feminine ending
Free Verse
49. 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
Satire
Rhetorical techniques
Personification
Figurative Language
50. 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
Autobiography
Rising action
Allusion
Feminine ending
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