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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Personification
Figurative Language
Free Verse
Literal Language
2. The main thought expressed by a work.
Theme
Soliloquy
Irony
Climax
3. 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.)
Hyperbole
Attitude
Setting
Irony
4. 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
Figurative Language
Euphemism
Satire
Irony
5. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Irony
Imagery
Feminine ending
Personification
6. 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.)
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Syllogism
Personification
Convention
7. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Rhetorical techniques
Allusion
Irony
8. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Novel
Soliloquy
Short Story
9. 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
Euphemism
Personification
Rhetorical question
10. 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
Lyrical
Poetry
Personification
Allegory
11. 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.
Novel
Rhetorical techniques
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Metaphor
12. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
13. 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
Figurative Language
Alliteration
Folk tales
Myths
14. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Setting
Diction
Metaphor
15. 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
Sonnet
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Metaphor
Biography
16. 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.
Syllogism
Denotation
Imagery
Climax
17. Sometimes Shakespeare added an extra unstressed beat at the end of a line to emphasize a character's sense of contemplation (___________) - To BE - / or NOT / to BE: / that IS / the QUES- / - tion
Rising action
Feminine ending
Metaphor
Analogy
18. 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?
Tragedy
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Analogy
19. 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
Sonnet
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Novel
Attitude
20. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Parable
Diction
21. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Plot
Jargon
Personification
Sonnet
22. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Rhetorical techniques
Simile
Free Verse
Alliteration
23. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Biography
Alliteration
Thesis
Imagery
24. 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
Jargon
Parable
Soliloquy
Iambic Pentameter
25. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Literal Language
Hyperbole
26. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Parody
Theme
Imagery
Denouement/Resolution
27. 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 question
Feminine ending
Tone
28. 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
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Ballad
Imagery
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
Figurative Language
Novel
Legends
Literal Language
30. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Feminine ending
Foreshadowing
Satire
31. 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.
Myths
Convention
Rising action
Figurative Language
32. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Genre
Figurative Language
Free Verse
33. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Hyperbole
Attitude
34. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Hyperbole
Ballad
Paradox
Allusion
35. 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.)
Imagery
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Imagery
36. 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
Thesis
Falling action
Jargon
37. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Rhetorical question
Biography
Foreshadowing
Fairy tales
38. 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
Folk tales
Alliteration
Satire
39. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Rising action
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Ballad
40. 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?
Literal Language
Analyzing Poetry
Exposition
Novel
41. 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
Examples of folk tales
Convention
Point of view
Attitude
42. 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
Metaphor
Free Verse
Myths
Thesis
43. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Setting
Rhetorical techniques
Iambic Pentameter
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
44. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Denotation
Personification
Biography
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
45. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Setting
Simile
Animal folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
46. 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.'
Autobiography
Parable
Metaphor
Rhetorical techniques
47. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Rhetorical question
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Metaphor
Exposition
48. Shorter novels are called ___________
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Novel
novellas
Animal folk tales
49. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
3 major categories of poetry
Structure
Protagonist
Climax
50. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
novellas
Rhetorical techniques
Myths