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CSET Literature - 2
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1. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Flashback
Falling action
Examples of folk tales
Simile
2. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Analogy
Parable
Satire
Hyperbole
3. 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
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Style
Point of view
4. The main thought expressed by a work.
Euphemism
Theme
Exposition
Alliteration
5. 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
Alliteration
Myths
Soliloquy
Climax
6. 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.'
Style
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Metaphor
Analogy
7. 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.
Diction
Biography
Hyperbole
Figurative Language
8. 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.
Hyperbole
Climax
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
9. 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
Figurative Language
Satire
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Autobiography
10. 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.'
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Simile
Parody
11. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Rhetorical techniques
Parody
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
12. 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
Hyperbole
Free Verse
Alliteration
13. 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.
Folk tales
Structure
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Tragedy
14. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Oxymoron
Prose
Rhetorical question
Paradox
15. 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
Literal Language
Metaphor
Syllogism
Myths
16. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Figurative Language
novellas
17. 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
Point of view
Figurative Language
Structure
Imagery
18. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Free Verse
Sonnet
Climax
Structure
19. 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
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Literal Language
20. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Denotation
Satire
Plot
Omniscient point of view
21. 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
Narrative techniques
Setting
Plot
22. 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
Prose
Folk tales
Simile
Point of view
23. 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
Parable
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Syllogism
24. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Omniscient point of view
Denotation
Animal folk tales
Satire
25. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Personification
Exposition
Literal
Thesis
26. 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.)
Theme
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Literal
27. 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
Denotation
Thesis
Paradox
Narrative techniques
28. 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
Climax
Rising action
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
29. 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.
Setting
Climax
Structure
Irony
30. 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.
Tone
Thesis
Jargon
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
31. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Style
Narrative techniques
Diction
Simile
32. 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
Sonnet
Tone
Hyperbole
Novel
33. 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
Genre
Oxymoron
Autobiography
Iambic Pentameter
34. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Autobiography
Novel
Style
Connotation
35. An accurate history of a single person.
Climax
Thesis
Short Story
Biography
36. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
Point of view
Ballad
Allegory
37. 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.
Genre
Animal folk tales
Prose
Rising action
38. 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
Folk tales
Hyperbole
Connotation
Parody
39. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Exposition
Personification
Sonnet
Examples of folk tales
40. 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.)
Metaphor
Flashback
Paradox
Irony
41. 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.)
Convention
Ballad
Theme
Irony
42. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Prose
Myths
Falling action
Connotation
43. 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
Omniscient point of view
Irony
Climax
44. 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
novellas
Foreshadowing
Denouement/Resolution
45. An author's account of his or her own life.
Hyperbole
Autobiography
Connotation
Syllogism
46. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Structure
Protagonist
Plot
Oxymoron
47. 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
Analyzing Poetry
Simile
Symbol
Rhetorical techniques
48. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Personification
49. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Literal
Denotation
Personification
Denouement/Resolution
50. 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
Sonnet
Short Story
Euphemism
Style
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