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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Omniscient point of view
Satire
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
2. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Syllogism
Exposition
Lyrical
Novel
3. An accurate history of a single person.
Analogy
Biography
Ballad
Satire
4. 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
Irony
Lyrical
Hyperbole
novellas
5. 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.)
Analogy
Attitude
Rhetorical question
Ballad
6. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Lyrical
Feminine ending
Hyperbole
Novel
7. 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.
Tragedy
Exposition
Jargon
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
8. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Diction
Fairy tales
Hyperbole
9. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Exposition
Denouement/Resolution
Irony
Theme
10. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Figurative Language
Narrative techniques
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Parody
11. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Irony
Attitude
Free Verse
12. 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.
Style
Euphemism
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Exposition
13. 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.)
Paradox
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Examples of folk tales
Novel
14. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Rising action
Analogy
Diction
Protagonist
15. 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
Analyzing Poetry
Climax
Alliteration
Fairy tales
16. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Climax
Narrative techniques
Tragedy
17. 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
Soliloquy
Symbol
Figurative Language
Metaphor
18. 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.'
Imagery
Metaphor
Fairy tales
Tone
19. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Hyperbole
Animal folk tales
Rhetorical techniques
20. 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.)
Protagonist
Lyrical
Oxymoron
Convention
21. 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.
Animal folk tales
Hyperbole
Theme
Rising action
22. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Animal folk tales
Sonnet
Iambic Pentameter
Irony
23. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Climax
3 major categories of poetry
Myths
Figurative Language
24. 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
Folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Hyperbole
Lyrical
25. 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
Fairy tales
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Narrative techniques
Tone
26. 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
Metaphor
Climax
Iambic Pentameter
Animal folk tales
27. The main thought expressed by a work.
Allusion
Diction
Theme
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
28. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Foreshadowing
Syllogism
Falling action
29. 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.'
Symbol
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Simile
30. 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
Climax
Irony
Thesis
31. 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.
Rising action
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Syllogism
Structure
32. 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
Narrative techniques
Symbol
Soliloquy
Allusion
33. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Biography
Imagery
Metaphor
Denotation
34. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Protagonist
Literal
Point of view
Imagery
35. 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
Soliloquy
Irony
Short Story
Figurative Language
36. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Irony
Euphemism
Literal
Point of view
37. 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
Legends
Denouement/Resolution
Soliloquy
Poetry
38. 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
Feminine ending
Falling action
Autobiography
Structure
39. 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
Imagery
Convention
Setting
Genre
40. 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
Paradox
Parable
Parody
41. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Style
Simile
Alliteration
Poetry
42. 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
Narrative techniques
Legends
Figurative Language
Protagonist
43. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Sonnet
Falling action
Figurative Language
Autobiography
44. 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
Style
Euphemism
Allegory
Soliloquy
45. 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
Parody
Allusion
Free Verse
Biography
46. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Climax
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Rhetorical question
47. 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 -
Climax
Genre
Flashback
Novel
48. 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
Jargon
Legends
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Foreshadowing
49. 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.
Syllogism
Setting
Flashback
Autobiography
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
Foreshadowing
Legends
Fairy tales
Irony