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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Legends
Tone
Literal
Alliteration
2. An accurate history of a single person.
Diction
Biography
Prose
Style
3. 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
Oxymoron
Point of view
Euphemism
4. 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.'
Omniscient point of view
Analogy
Biography
Denotation
5. 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
Foreshadowing
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Rhetorical question
6. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Free Verse
Short Story
Style
Ballad
7. 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
Denouement/Resolution
Analogy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Symbol
8. 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.
Climax
Personification
Syllogism
Jargon
9. 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
Satire
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Feminine ending
10. 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.'
Literal Language
Denouement/Resolution
Simile
Fairy tales
11. 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
Setting
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Jargon
12. 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
Personification
Lyrical
Poetry
Rhetorical techniques
13. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Lyrical
Plot
Euphemism
14. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Prose
Allegory
Parable
15. 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.)
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Attitude
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Metaphor
16. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Personification
Connotation
Fairy tales
Thesis
17. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Prose
Legends
Simile
18. 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
Symbol
Short Story
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Climax
19. 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
Literal Language
Ballad
Syllogism
Flashback
20. 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
Symbol
Point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Legends
21. 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 -
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Climax
Sonnet
Narrative techniques
22. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Imagery
Hyperbole
Genre
Denotation
23. 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
Flashback
Legends
Metaphor
Syllogism
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.)
Denouement/Resolution
Rhetorical question
Thesis
Convention
25. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Tone
Lyrical
Rhetorical techniques
Myths
26. 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
3 major categories of poetry
Metaphor
Satire
Free Verse
27. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Parable
Biography
Falling action
Short Story
28. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Sonnet
Literal Language
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
29. 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.
Analogy
Style
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Protagonist
30. An author's account of his or her own life.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Alliteration
Paradox
Autobiography
31. 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
Novel
Imagery
Hyperbole
Literal
32. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
Lyrical
Narrative techniques
Fairy tales
33. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Literal
Lyrical
Animal folk tales
3 major categories of poetry
34. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Denotation
Syllogism
Omniscient point of view
Prose
35. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Analyzing Poetry
Examples of folk tales
Diction
Tragedy
36. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Novel
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
37. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Genre
Examples of folk tales
Rising action
38. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Convention
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Hyperbole
Novel
39. 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).
Connotation
Genre
Tone
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
40. 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
Thesis
Soliloquy
Novel
Animal folk tales
41. 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
Imagery
Thesis
Irony
Foreshadowing
42. 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
Rhetorical question
Soliloquy
Rising action
43. 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
Fairy tales
Free Verse
Myths
Style
44. 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.)
Rising action
Connotation
Paradox
Narrative techniques
45. 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
Analogy
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Tone
Novel
46. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Rhetorical techniques
Style
Protagonist
Symbol
47. 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
Folk tales
Parody
Climax
Syllogism
48. 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
Structure
Personification
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Figurative Language
49. 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 theme of the poem?
Paradox
Theme
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
50. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Animal folk tales
Imagery
Structure