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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Exposition
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Thesis
Analogy
2. 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.
Hyperbole
Tone
Flashback
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
3. 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.
Legends
3 major categories of poetry
Examples of folk tales
Literal Language
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
Irony
Novel
Satire
Hyperbole
5. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Narrative techniques
Examples of folk tales
Point of view
6. 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
Myths
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
7. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Ballad
Oxymoron
Euphemism
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
Parable
Allegory
Irony
Short Story
9. 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 -
Plot
Climax
Analyzing Poetry
Metaphor
10. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
Falling action
Novel
Satire
11. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Satire
Soliloquy
Figurative Language
12. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Folk tales
Flashback
Diction
13. An accurate history of a single person.
3 major categories of poetry
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Biography
14. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Biography
Figurative Language
Personification
Examples of folk tales
15. Shorter novels are called ___________
novellas
Metaphor
Folk tales
Fairy tales
16. 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
Feminine ending
Allusion
Point of view
Imagery
17. 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.
Rhetorical techniques
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Rising action
18. 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
Convention
Point of view
Animal folk tales
Irony
19. 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
Imagery
Personification
Denouement/Resolution
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
20. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Connotation
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Paradox
21. 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?
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Fairy tales
Metaphor
22. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Allusion
Analogy
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Rhetorical question
23. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Genre
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
Parody
24. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Symbol
Lyrical
Structure
25. 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
Irony
Flashback
Protagonist
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
26. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Protagonist
Climax
Hyperbole
3 major categories of poetry
27. 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
Tone
Protagonist
Foreshadowing
28. 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
Plot
Poetry
Hyperbole
29. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Analogy
Theme
Animal folk tales
Diction
30. 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
Analogy
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Literal
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
Convention
Soliloquy
Examples of folk tales
Tone
32. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Oxymoron
Denotation
Falling action
Novel
33. 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
Satire
Point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Legends
34. 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
Connotation
Symbol
Figurative Language
Falling action
35. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Euphemism
Free Verse
Irony
Personification
36. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Plot
Hyperbole
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry
37. 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
Figurative Language
3 major categories of poetry
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
38. 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
Parody
Setting
Figurative Language
Tone
39. An author's account of his or her own life.
Animal folk tales
Autobiography
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Omniscient point of view
40. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Literal Language
Literal
41. 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
Irony
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Hyperbole
Feminine ending
42. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Theme
Animal folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Convention
43. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
44. 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
Fairy tales
Soliloquy
Allegory
Poetry
45. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Biography
Legends
Euphemism
Convention
46. 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.)
Convention
Sonnet
Structure
Diction
47. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Satire
Alliteration
Narrative techniques
Soliloquy
48. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Sonnet
Symbol
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Exposition
49. 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: Is the meaning clear?
Genre
Exposition
50. 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
Literal Language
Plot
Prose