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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Metaphor
Narrative techniques
Denotation
Rising action
2. 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.'
Simile
Rhetorical question
Figurative Language
Denouement/Resolution
3. 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
Analogy
3 major categories of poetry
Soliloquy
4. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Climax
novellas
Denotation
Climax
5. 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
Parody
Allegory
novellas
Poetry
6. 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.)
Jargon
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Irony
Paradox
7. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Autobiography
Alliteration
Exposition
8. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Protagonist
Feminine ending
Plot
3 major categories of poetry
9. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Genre
3 major categories of poetry
Imagery
Thesis
10. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Omniscient point of view
Free Verse
Hyperbole
Irony
11. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Foreshadowing
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Animal folk tales
12. 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?
Tone
Ballad
Biography
13. 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?
Allegory
Plot
Diction
14. 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
Structure
Thesis
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
15. 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.)
Rhetorical question
Convention
Rising action
Foreshadowing
16. Shorter novels are called ___________
Free Verse
Genre
novellas
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
17. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Falling action
Point of view
Personification
Parody
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
Hyperbole
Poetry
Feminine ending
Genre
19. 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
Omniscient point of view
Plot
Short Story
Figurative Language
20. 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
Style
Euphemism
Irony
Tragedy
21. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Autobiography
Imagery
Personification
Symbol
22. An accurate history of a single person.
Autobiography
Biography
Legends
Imagery
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
Protagonist
Connotation
Syllogism
Foreshadowing
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.)
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Rhetorical techniques
Novel
25. 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).
Genre
Climax
Iambic Pentameter
Ballad
26. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Convention
Paradox
Point of view
Rhetorical techniques
27. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Convention
Literal Language
Rhetorical question
Myths
28. 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
Ballad
Iambic Pentameter
Myths
Metaphor
29. 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
novellas
Legends
Analogy
30. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Connotation
Examples of folk tales
Biography
Tragedy
31. 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
Narrative techniques
Folk tales
Paradox
Examples of folk tales
32. 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
Attitude
Exposition
Allegory
33. The main thought expressed by a work.
Theme
Personification
Euphemism
Genre
34. 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.
Foreshadowing
Climax
Figurative Language
Rhetorical question
35. 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
Parody
Feminine ending
Symbol
Connotation
36. 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
Exposition
Imagery
Soliloquy
Sonnet
37. 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?
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Rising action
Alliteration
38. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Soliloquy
Parable
Hyperbole
Allegory
39. 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
Figurative Language
Fairy tales
Syllogism
Folk tales
40. 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
Novel
Free Verse
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
41. Type of folk tale - Narratives that often include creation stories and explain tribal beginnings - May incorporate supernatural beings or quasi - historical figures (e.g. King Arthur - Lady Godiva) - Told and retold as if they are based on facts; alw
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry
Legends
Imagery
42. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Euphemism
Attitude
Imagery
43. 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
Imagery
Connotation
Setting
Metaphor
44. 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.)
Attitude
Analogy
Genre
Diction
45. 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
Symbol
Poetry
Hyperbole
Soliloquy
46. 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
Imagery
Allusion
Fairy tales
Irony
47. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Tone
Allegory
Allusion
Sonnet
48. An author's account of his or her own life.
Prose
Autobiography
Rhetorical question
Legends
49. 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
Paradox
Satire
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
50. 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
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Narrative techniques