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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Personification
Myths
Fairy tales
2. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Biography
Flashback
Parable
Oxymoron
3. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Allegory
Style
Plot
4. 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
Parable
Irony
Style
Novel
5. 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.)
Legends
Rising action
Attitude
Tone
6. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Simile
Plot
Free Verse
Genre
7. 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?
Climax
Legends
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Oxymoron
8. 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
Climax
Flashback
Syllogism
Simile
9. 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
Rising action
Narrative techniques
Rhetorical techniques
Rhetorical question
10. 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
Paradox
Hyperbole
Point of view
Novel
11. 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?
Metaphor
Euphemism
Free Verse
Analyzing Poetry
12. 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
Setting
Imagery
Theme
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
13. 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.)
Point of view
Figurative Language
Paradox
Denouement/Resolution
14. 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.
Rising action
Denotation
Style
Genre
15. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Style
Oxymoron
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
Short Story
Foreshadowing
Climax
Connotation
17. 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
Theme
Soliloquy
Parable
Satire
18. 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
Lyrical
Poetry
Figurative Language
Genre
19. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
Hyperbole
Personification
Prose
20. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Syllogism
Oxymoron
21. An author's account of his or her own life.
Jargon
Paradox
Imagery
Autobiography
22. 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
Autobiography
Genre
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
23. An accurate history of a single person.
Paradox
Poetry
Imagery
Biography
24. 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.)
Exposition
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry
Iambic Pentameter
25. 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
Narrative techniques
Short Story
Figurative Language
Myths
26. 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
Personification
Analogy
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Animal folk tales
27. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Soliloquy
Hyperbole
Prose
Narrative techniques
28. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Short Story
Climax
Personification
Allegory
29. 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
Personification
Poetry
Hyperbole
Irony
30. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Satire
Biography
Falling action
Animal folk tales
31. 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
Legends
Figurative Language
Short Story
Symbol
32. 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.
Figurative Language
Literal Language
Flashback
Foreshadowing
33. 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
Rising action
Soliloquy
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Simile
34. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Protagonist
Diction
Sonnet
Novel
35. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Euphemism
Rhetorical techniques
Flashback
Rhetorical question
36. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Irony
Syllogism
Literal
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
37. 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
Euphemism
Foreshadowing
Falling action
Flashback
38. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Jargon
Lyrical
Animal folk tales
39. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Animal folk tales
Exposition
Attitude
Lyrical
40. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Denotation
novellas
41. 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.
Prose
Denouement/Resolution
Tone
Hyperbole
42. 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.
Thesis
Tragedy
Metaphor
Omniscient point of view
43. 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
Personification
Omniscient point of view
Figurative Language
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
44. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Animal folk tales
Imagery
Omniscient point of view
Alliteration
45. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Foreshadowing
46. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Connotation
Climax
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
47. 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.
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry
Climax
Imagery
48. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Analyzing Poetry
Paradox
Sonnet
Protagonist
49. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Legends
Figurative Language
Short Story
50. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Feminine ending
Protagonist
Thesis
Theme