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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.)
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Metaphor
Convention
Rising action
2. 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.'
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Sonnet
3. 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
Convention
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Biography
Point of view
4. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Poetry
Iambic Pentameter
Hyperbole
5. 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
3 major categories of poetry
Climax
Denouement/Resolution
6. 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?
Climax
Parable
Parody
7. 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.
Folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Rising action
Flashback
8. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Legends
Animal folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
9. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Narrative techniques
Parable
Biography
Legends
10. 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.
Climax
Satire
Figurative Language
Rising action
11. 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
Convention
Myths
Protagonist
Setting
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?
Hyperbole
Folk tales
Personification
13. 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.)
Biography
novellas
Attitude
Diction
14. 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.'
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Prose
Analogy
15. The main thought expressed by a work.
Connotation
Novel
Flashback
Theme
16. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Novel
Jargon
Diction
Literal
17. 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
Tone
Autobiography
Irony
Setting
18. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Allusion
Thesis
Biography
Denouement/Resolution
19. 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: What is the structure of the poem?
Novel
Thesis
Structure
20. 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 -
Omniscient point of view
Hyperbole
Climax
Structure
21. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Novel
Paradox
Legends
Examples of folk tales
22. 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.
Genre
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Jargon
Analogy
23. 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
Free Verse
Autobiography
Imagery
Hyperbole
24. An author's account of his or her own life.
Autobiography
Metaphor
Jargon
Theme
25. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length - Styles include picaresque - epistolary - gothic - romantic - realist - and historical ren have mastered the mechanics of reading - between ages 9 and 12 - they are prepared to sustain the more d
Novel
Narrative techniques
Rhetorical question
Genre
26. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Imagery
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Figurative Language
27. 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
Falling action
Jargon
Legends
28. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Simile
Point of view
Tragedy
Rhetorical question
29. 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
Flashback
Animal folk tales
Short Story
Genre
30. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Free Verse
Exposition
31. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Symbol
Rhetorical techniques
Climax
Sonnet
32. 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.)
Imagery
Paradox
Jargon
Literal
33. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Personification
Irony
Foreshadowing
Denotation
34. 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
Point of view
Rising action
Poetry
Analyzing Poetry
35. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Analogy
Feminine ending
Alliteration
Ballad
36. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Figurative Language
Prose
Myths
37. 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
Style
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Personification
Short Story
38. 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
Irony
Tone
Narrative techniques
Folk tales
39. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Attitude
Thesis
40. 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.)
Genre
Structure
Figurative Language
Oxymoron
41. 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
Euphemism
Figurative Language
Literal
Examples of folk tales
42. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Flashback
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
43. 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.
Alliteration
Autobiography
Jargon
Setting
44. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Metaphor
Diction
Prose
Thesis
45. 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
Sonnet
Narrative techniques
Jargon
Syllogism
46. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Point of view
Imagery
Alliteration
Imagery
47. Shorter novels are called ___________
Irony
Paradox
novellas
Euphemism
48. 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
Examples of folk tales
Allusion
Literal
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
49. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Rising action
Setting
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Simile
50. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Literal
Flashback
Legends
Metaphor