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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Plot
Figurative Language
Myths
Alliteration
2. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Alliteration
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Flashback
Animal folk tales
3. 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
Denotation
Tone
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
4. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Tragedy
Irony
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Connotation
5. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Parable
Literal
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
6. 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.
Connotation
Tone
Setting
Fairy tales
7. 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
Short Story
Analyzing Poetry
Personification
Narrative techniques
8. An author's account of his or her own life.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Convention
Autobiography
Rhetorical question
9. 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.
Jargon
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Legends
10. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Foreshadowing
Parable
Animal folk tales
Rhetorical techniques
11. 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
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Flashback
Hyperbole
12. 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.
Omniscient point of view
Theme
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
13. 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
Allusion
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Myths
14. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Examples of folk tales
Oxymoron
Symbol
Thesis
15. 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
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
novellas
16. 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?
Soliloquy
Analyzing Poetry
Analogy
Examples of folk tales
17. 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.)
Rising action
Short Story
Personification
Attitude
18. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Satire
Protagonist
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Folk tales
19. 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.)
Convention
Protagonist
Myths
Paradox
20. 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
Thesis
Feminine ending
Connotation
21. 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
Allegory
Style
Symbol
Oxymoron
22. 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
Folk tales
Symbol
Climax
Imagery
23. 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?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Narrative techniques
Analogy
Autobiography
24. 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
Satire
Diction
Thesis
Climax
25. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Analyzing Poetry
Personification
Novel
Irony
26. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
Simile
Animal folk tales
Style
27. 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.
Fairy tales
Parody
Climax
Omniscient point of view
28. 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
Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Exposition
Ballad
29. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Narrative techniques
Imagery
Paradox
Hyperbole
30. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Syllogism
Animal folk tales
Rhetorical techniques
Exposition
31. 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
Poetry
Folk tales
Alliteration
Tone
32. 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
Lyrical
Falling action
Theme
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
33. 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
Symbol
Foreshadowing
Style
Irony
34. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Omniscient point of view
Setting
35. 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
Style
Figurative Language
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Diction
36. 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
Literal
Foreshadowing
Fairy tales
Diction
37. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Iambic Pentameter
Prose
Irony
Convention
38. 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.
Parable
Structure
Style
Tragedy
39. 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
Thesis
Euphemism
Soliloquy
Syllogism
40. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Metaphor
Free Verse
Rhetorical techniques
Autobiography
41. 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
Oxymoron
Autobiography
Figurative Language
Structure
42. 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 -
Iambic Pentameter
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Prose
43. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Tragedy
Personification
Irony
Poetry
44. 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
Analogy
Legends
Tone
Point of view
45. 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
Metaphor
Analogy
Literal
Imagery
46. 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
Metaphor
Imagery
Foreshadowing
Parody
47. 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.'
Analogy
Imagery
Metaphor
Allusion
48. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Point of view
Oxymoron
Tragedy
Diction
49. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Paradox
Parable
Novel
50. 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
Fairy tales
Folk tales
Metaphor
Allegory
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