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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Imagery
Folk tales
Thesis
2. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Plot
Thesis
Paradox
Satire
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).
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Genre
Feminine ending
4. 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
Free Verse
Fairy tales
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Oxymoron
5. 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.)
Autobiography
Literal
Paradox
Structure
6. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
novellas
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Euphemism
Metaphor
7. 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
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
novellas
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
8. An accurate history of a single person.
Iambic Pentameter
Poetry
Biography
Omniscient point of view
9. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Euphemism
Rhetorical techniques
Analogy
Novel
10. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Biography
Genre
Prose
Syllogism
11. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Irony
Diction
Lyrical
12. 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
Analogy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Irony
Short Story
13. 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.
novellas
Fairy tales
Novel
Hyperbole
14. 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.'
Paradox
Irony
Legends
Simile
15. 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
Autobiography
Flashback
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
16. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Protagonist
Figurative Language
17. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Genre
3 major categories of poetry
Denouement/Resolution
Style
18. 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
Legends
Novel
Personification
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
19. 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
Protagonist
Fairy tales
Foreshadowing
Figurative Language
20. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Connotation
Theme
Protagonist
21. 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
Legends
Satire
Feminine ending
Setting
22. 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.
Genre
Climax
Narrative techniques
Hyperbole
23. 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
Denotation
Figurative Language
Parody
Foreshadowing
24. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Short Story
Paradox
Alliteration
Tragedy
25. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Protagonist
Rising action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
26. 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
Soliloquy
Tone
Denotation
Irony
27. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Hyperbole
Imagery
Legends
Symbol
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
Allusion
Examples of folk tales
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analogy
29. 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
Diction
novellas
Denotation
Figurative Language
30. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Thesis
Plot
Protagonist
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
31. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Alliteration
Imagery
3 major categories of poetry
Novel
32. 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
Narrative techniques
Animal folk tales
Irony
Protagonist
33. 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
Genre
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Protagonist
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
34. 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.
Attitude
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Syllogism
35. 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
Theme
Biography
Syllogism
Oxymoron
36. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Connotation
Poetry
Biography
Simile
37. 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
Ballad
Symbol
Myths
Examples of folk tales
38. The main thought expressed by a work.
Theme
Personification
Rhetorical techniques
Attitude
39. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Diction
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
Personification
40. 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.
Examples of folk tales
Hyperbole
Setting
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
41. 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.)
Oxymoron
Short Story
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Omniscient point of view
42. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Jargon
Rhetorical question
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
43. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Figurative Language
Climax
Novel
44. 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.'
Analogy
novellas
Satire
Myths
45. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Parable
Folk tales
Hyperbole
46. 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
Rhetorical question
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Oxymoron
47. 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.
Literal Language
Legends
Analogy
Allegory
48. 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
Soliloquy
Figurative Language
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
49. 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 -
Fairy tales
Hyperbole
Omniscient point of view
Climax
50. 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.
Style
Omniscient point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Rising action
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