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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Metaphor
Tone
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Parable
2. Shorter novels are called ___________
Lyrical
novellas
Climax
Protagonist
3. 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
Setting
Rising action
Autobiography
4. 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
Exposition
Novel
Syllogism
Hyperbole
5. 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.
Personification
Literal Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Plot
6. 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.
3 major categories of poetry
Examples of folk tales
Jargon
Setting
7. 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.
Exposition
Climax
Personification
Plot
8. 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
Imagery
Style
Foreshadowing
Literal Language
9. 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
Analogy
Metaphor
Fairy tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
10. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Style
Free Verse
Simile
Imagery
11. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Denouement/Resolution
Point of view
Symbol
12. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Autobiography
Jargon
Diction
Personification
13. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Denotation
Ballad
Allegory
Exposition
14. 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.
Setting
Narrative techniques
Style
Irony
15. 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.
Iambic Pentameter
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Hyperbole
Feminine ending
16. 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
Metaphor
Denotation
Parody
17. 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
Climax
Flashback
Climax
18. 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
Hyperbole
Allusion
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Figurative Language
19. 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
Parable
Analogy
Euphemism
Poetry
20. 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
Setting
Connotation
Literal
Imagery
21. The main thought expressed by a work.
Free Verse
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Attitude
Theme
22. 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
Irony
Ballad
Imagery
23. 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
Style
Figurative Language
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Setting
24. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Biography
Poetry
Symbol
25. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
novellas
Myths
Euphemism
Narrative techniques
26. 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
Climax
Folk tales
Analogy
Allegory
27. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Personification
Thesis
Exposition
Falling action
28. 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.'
Thesis
Simile
Short Story
Lyrical
29. A figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ - characteristically praise for blame and blame for praise; the use of words to suggest the opposite of their intended meaning. A pattern of words that turns away from direct statement of i
Allegory
Alliteration
Flashback
Irony
30. 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
Biography
Point of view
Parody
Folk tales
31. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Connotation
Personification
novellas
Paradox
32. 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
Prose
Novel
Convention
Legends
33. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Oxymoron
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Iambic Pentameter
Lyrical
34. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Structure
Parable
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry
35. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Rhetorical question
Biography
Falling action
Structure
36. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Figurative Language
Jargon
Prose
Tragedy
37. 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
Satire
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Plot
Folk tales
38. 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
Foreshadowing
Figurative Language
Plot
39. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Point of view
Animal folk tales
Folk tales
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
40. 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
Jargon
Rhetorical techniques
Metaphor
Connotation
41. 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
Figurative Language
Fairy tales
Thesis
Prose
42. 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
Rising action
Structure
Foreshadowing
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
43. An author's account of his or her own life.
Autobiography
Plot
Attitude
Rhetorical question
44. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Plot
Genre
Jargon
Animal folk tales
45. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Parody
Protagonist
Sonnet
Euphemism
46. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Connotation
Parody
Tragedy
Falling action
47. 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.
Omniscient point of view
Oxymoron
Satire
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
48. 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
Foreshadowing
Legends
Autobiography
Allegory
49. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Literal Language
Sonnet
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Point of view
50. 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
Metaphor
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Genre