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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Oxymoron
Parable
Flashback
Climax
2. 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.
Narrative techniques
Jargon
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Parody
3. 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.)
Animal folk tales
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Paradox
Figurative Language
4. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Setting
Diction
Euphemism
Syllogism
5. 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
Exposition
Narrative techniques
Allusion
Ballad
6. An accurate history of a single person.
Biography
Hyperbole
Short Story
Oxymoron
7. 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.
Paradox
Omniscient point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Literal Language
8. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Figurative Language
Foreshadowing
Jargon
9. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Rhetorical question
Point of view
Diction
Metaphor
10. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Style
Allegory
Parody
Rhetorical question
11. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Denotation
Rising action
Climax
12. The main thought expressed by a work.
Personification
Lyrical
Theme
Examples of folk tales
13. 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 -
Novel
Climax
Syllogism
Allusion
14. 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
Figurative Language
Animal folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Autobiography
15. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Prose
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
16. 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
Literal
Flashback
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Denouement/Resolution
17. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Novel
Convention
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Theme
18. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Euphemism
Setting
Rhetorical techniques
Foreshadowing
19. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
novellas
Free Verse
Alliteration
Novel
20. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Novel
Myths
21. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
3 major categories of poetry
Alliteration
Falling action
Allusion
22. 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
Foreshadowing
Tone
Prose
Euphemism
23. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Connotation
Flashback
Alliteration
Figurative Language
24. 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.)
Metaphor
Rising action
Style
Convention
25. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Denotation
Syllogism
Literal
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
26. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Flashback
Falling action
Convention
Imagery
27. 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.)
Rhetorical question
Euphemism
Diction
Attitude
28. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Foreshadowing
Symbol
Thesis
Lyrical
29. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Jargon
Theme
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
30. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Animal folk tales
Feminine ending
Lyrical
Ballad
31. 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
Rising action
Diction
Imagery
32. 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
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Connotation
33. 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?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Climax
Irony
Metaphor
34. 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.'
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Protagonist
Simile
Syllogism
35. 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
Short Story
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Syllogism
36. An author's account of his or her own life.
Alliteration
Attitude
Irony
Autobiography
37. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Satire
Structure
Irony
38. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Irony
Fairy tales
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
39. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Imagery
Rhetorical techniques
Personification
Poetry
40. 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
Style
Novel
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
41. 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
Omniscient point of view
Folk tales
Exposition
Climax
42. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Foreshadowing
Omniscient point of view
Examples of folk tales
43. 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
Irony
Syllogism
Climax
Imagery
44. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry
Hyperbole
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
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
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Soliloquy
Lyrical
46. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Figurative Language
Analogy
Parable
47. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Connotation
Analogy
Irony
3 major categories of poetry
48. 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
Simile
Syllogism
Point of view
Autobiography
49. 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.
Soliloquy
Structure
Biography
Hyperbole
50. 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
Poetry
Symbol
Myths
Personification