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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Ballad
Lyrical
Myths
Parable
2. An author's account of his or her own life.
Parody
Metaphor
Autobiography
Allusion
3. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Personification
Point of view
Ballad
Paradox
4. 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.
Jargon
Diction
Tragedy
Climax
5. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Poetry
3 major categories of poetry
Fairy tales
Iambic Pentameter
6. 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
Falling action
Oxymoron
Rising action
Allegory
7. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Connotation
Irony
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Point of view
8. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Euphemism
Fairy tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Personification
9. 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
Parody
Novel
Poetry
Figurative Language
10. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Satire
Omniscient point of view
Myths
11. 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
Euphemism
Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Soliloquy
12. 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 -
Examples of folk tales
Short Story
Climax
Parody
13. 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
Narrative techniques
Connotation
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
14. 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.)
Allusion
Personification
Paradox
Legends
15. Shorter novels are called ___________
Figurative Language
novellas
Figurative Language
Ballad
16. 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
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
17. 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
Metaphor
Style
Iambic Pentameter
18. An accurate history of a single person.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Sonnet
Protagonist
Biography
19. 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).
Allusion
Fairy tales
Literal
Genre
20. 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
Legends
Lyrical
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
21. 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
Flashback
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Allegory
22. The main thought expressed by a work.
Short Story
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Irony
Theme
23. 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
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Sonnet
24. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Diction
Metaphor
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
25. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Examples of folk tales
Paradox
26. 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
Setting
Metaphor
27. 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
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Autobiography
28. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Jargon
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Irony
29. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Figurative Language
Euphemism
novellas
Exposition
30. 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
Legends
Animal folk tales
Thesis
Irony
31. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Plot
Satire
Personification
Autobiography
32. 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
Alliteration
Setting
Legends
Metaphor
33. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Literal
Euphemism
Irony
Animal folk tales
34. 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
Novel
3 major categories of poetry
Diction
35. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Lyrical
Metaphor
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Literal Language
36. 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.
Parable
Exposition
Rising action
Soliloquy
37. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Denotation
Soliloquy
Falling action
Euphemism
38. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Flashback
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry
39. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Animal folk tales
Poetry
Genre
Rising action
40. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Myths
Personification
Exposition
41. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Satire
Figurative Language
Tone
42. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Irony
novellas
Hyperbole
Poetry
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
Prose
Imagery
Myths
Syllogism
44. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Irony
Biography
Figurative Language
45. 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.'
Omniscient point of view
Metaphor
Sonnet
Genre
46. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Tragedy
Soliloquy
Short Story
47. 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?
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry
Lyrical
Myths
48. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Tone
Imagery
Prose
Rising action
49. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Prose
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Folk tales
50. 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.
Poetry
Literal
Literal Language
Narrative techniques