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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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?
Sonnet
Rhetorical question
Attitude
2. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Analyzing Poetry
Metaphor
Ballad
Personification
3. 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
Tone
Connotation
Hyperbole
Diction
4. 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
Thesis
Analyzing Poetry
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
5. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Soliloquy
Flashback
3 major categories of poetry
Connotation
6. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Hyperbole
Poetry
Connotation
Attitude
7. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Denouement/Resolution
Personification
Diction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
8. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Prose
Tone
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Rhetorical techniques
9. 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
Oxymoron
Rhetorical question
Legends
Poetry
10. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Protagonist
Literal Language
11. 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
Figurative Language
Fairy tales
Novel
12. The main thought expressed by a work.
Theme
Imagery
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Structure
13. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Climax
Allegory
Thesis
Prose
14. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Novel
Folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Parable
15. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Syllogism
Point of view
Exposition
16. 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
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Novel
17. 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.
Folk tales
Jargon
Biography
Legends
18. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Point of view
Simile
Allegory
19. 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
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Allusion
Connotation
20. An accurate history of a single person.
Style
Myths
Hyperbole
Biography
21. 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
Rhetorical question
Structure
Protagonist
Figurative Language
22. 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
Symbol
Personification
Simile
Imagery
23. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Simile
Feminine ending
Style
Free Verse
24. 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).
Parody
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Genre
Euphemism
25. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Denouement/Resolution
Euphemism
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Thesis
26. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Jargon
Climax
Personification
Imagery
27. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Metaphor
Parable
Irony
Analyzing Poetry
28. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Literal Language
Narrative techniques
Diction
Denotation
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.
Convention
Rising action
Figurative Language
Autobiography
30. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Poetry
Figurative Language
Climax
31. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Examples of folk tales
Euphemism
32. 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.
Metaphor
Literal
Novel
Climax
33. 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
Falling action
Symbol
Metaphor
Allegory
34. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Figurative Language
Structure
Jargon
Exposition
35. 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.
Syllogism
Ballad
Literal Language
Soliloquy
36. 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
Feminine ending
Allegory
Legends
Analyzing Poetry
37. 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 -
Genre
Rising action
Irony
Climax
38. 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
Figurative Language
Metaphor
Point of view
Jargon
39. 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
Symbol
Myths
Figurative Language
40. The background to a story; the physical location of a story - play - or novel. - The setting of a narrative will normally involve both time and place.
Simile
Setting
Parody
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
41. 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.
Exposition
Omniscient point of view
Jargon
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
42. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Plot
Imagery
Analogy
Style
43. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Personification
44. 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
Syllogism
Climax
Satire
Protagonist
45. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry
Climax
46. An author's account of his or her own life.
Falling action
Hyperbole
Allegory
Autobiography
47. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Personification
Folk tales
Jargon
48. 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.
Examples of folk tales
Allegory
Novel
Style
49. 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
Syllogism
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Structure
Imagery
50. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Exposition
Legends
Fairy tales
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