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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Imagery
Climax
Personification
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
2. 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
Legends
Metaphor
Imagery
3. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Foreshadowing
Autobiography
Examples of folk tales
Climax
4. 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.'
Simile
Climax
Hyperbole
Connotation
5. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Metaphor
Novel
Irony
Allegory
6. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Examples of folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Omniscient point of view
7. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Hyperbole
Tone
Ballad
Attitude
8. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Analogy
Point of view
Hyperbole
Denouement/Resolution
9. 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
Short Story
Denouement/Resolution
Autobiography
10. 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
Satire
Soliloquy
Symbol
Foreshadowing
11. 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.)
Point of view
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Foreshadowing
12. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Protagonist
Metaphor
Free Verse
Point of view
13. 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
Euphemism
Allusion
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Alliteration
14. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Short Story
Protagonist
Paradox
Feminine ending
15. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Diction
Legends
Allegory
16. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Ballad
Prose
Syllogism
Biography
17. 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.)
Literal
Examples of folk tales
Paradox
Connotation
18. 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
Parody
Oxymoron
Structure
Legends
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
Structure
Euphemism
Symbol
Convention
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
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry
Imagery
Myths
21. 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
Jargon
Convention
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
Climax
Folk tales
Autobiography
Irony
23. 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.
Poetry
Convention
Jargon
Setting
24. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Animal folk tales
Theme
Novel
Exposition
25. 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 -
Iambic Pentameter
Novel
Climax
Personification
26. 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).
Free Verse
Genre
Poetry
Hyperbole
27. 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
Omniscient point of view
Examples of folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Foreshadowing
28. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Parable
Analogy
Parody
Figurative Language
29. 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
Irony
Autobiography
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
30. 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
Syllogism
Exposition
Flashback
Jargon
31. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Literal
Omniscient point of view
Figurative Language
Metaphor
32. 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
Folk tales
Attitude
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
33. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Rhetorical techniques
Foreshadowing
Euphemism
34. 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 dramatic situation?
Allegory
Irony
Symbol
35. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Oxymoron
Allusion
Personification
novellas
36. 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.
Alliteration
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Folk tales
37. 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.
Feminine ending
Flashback
Novel
Rising action
38. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Denotation
Syllogism
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Animal folk tales
39. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Biography
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Parody
40. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Literal Language
Rhetorical question
41. An accurate history of a single person.
Legends
Denotation
Biography
Tone
42. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Imagery
Prose
Alliteration
43. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Personification
3 major categories of poetry
Plot
novellas
44. 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.
Examples of folk tales
Hyperbole
Analogy
Sonnet
45. 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
Allegory
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Style
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
46. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
3 major categories of poetry
Allegory
Denouement/Resolution
Prose
47. The main thought expressed by a work.
Theme
Personification
Tragedy
Analogy
48. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Allusion
Tragedy
Ballad
Feminine ending
49. 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
Irony
Novel
Figurative Language
Alliteration
50. 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
Alliteration
Point of view
Biography
Parable