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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An accurate history of a single person.
Iambic Pentameter
Irony
Hyperbole
Biography
2. 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
Exposition
Structure
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Irony
3. 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.
3 major categories of poetry
Free Verse
Thesis
Style
4. 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
Metaphor
Falling action
Legends
Symbol
5. 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.
Climax
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Allusion
6. 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?
Convention
Lyrical
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
7. 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.
Iambic Pentameter
Fairy tales
3 major categories of poetry
Setting
8. 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
Personification
Myths
Jargon
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
9. An author's account of his or her own life.
Allusion
Legends
Tragedy
Autobiography
10. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Personification
Figurative Language
Satire
Connotation
11. Shorter novels are called ___________
Falling action
Irony
novellas
Parody
12. 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.'
Climax
Style
Analogy
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
13. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Protagonist
Tragedy
Prose
Alliteration
14. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Poetry
Fairy tales
Protagonist
Autobiography
15. 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.'
Irony
Imagery
Parody
Metaphor
16. 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?
Convention
Figurative Language
Personification
17. 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
Lyrical
Rising action
Satire
Irony
18. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Parody
Theme
Connotation
19. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Tone
Denotation
Analogy
Irony
20. 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
Examples of folk tales
Lyrical
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
21. 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
Prose
Metaphor
Poetry
Soliloquy
22. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Irony
Euphemism
Personification
Literal
23. 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
Style
Satire
Iambic Pentameter
Feminine ending
24. 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
Denouement/Resolution
Fairy tales
Thesis
Free Verse
25. 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.)
Metaphor
Tragedy
Narrative techniques
Paradox
26. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Denotation
Free Verse
Style
Biography
27. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Climax
Denouement/Resolution
Metaphor
Analogy
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.'
Free Verse
Poetry
Imagery
Simile
29. 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
Rising action
Novel
Alliteration
Euphemism
30. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Irony
Rhetorical techniques
Thesis
Short Story
31. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Autobiography
Setting
32. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Allegory
Literal
33. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Hyperbole
Personification
34. 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
Sonnet
Allegory
Animal folk tales
Irony
35. 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.
Rhetorical question
Parable
Imagery
Jargon
36. 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
Symbol
Literal
Structure
Irony
37. Sometimes Shakespeare added an extra unstressed beat at the end of a line to emphasize a character's sense of contemplation (___________) - To BE - / or NOT / to BE: / that IS / the QUES- / - tion
Oxymoron
Analogy
Symbol
Feminine ending
38. 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
Denotation
Point of view
Thesis
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
39. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Alliteration
Examples of folk tales
Myths
40. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Autobiography
Ballad
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Novel
41. 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
Euphemism
Structure
Metaphor
Imagery
42. What is the dramatic situation? What is the structure of the poem? What is the theme of the poem? Is the meaning clear? What is the tone of the poem? What are the important images and figures of speech?
Fairy tales
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Jargon
Analyzing Poetry
43. 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
Falling action
Climax
Figurative Language
Genre
44. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Imagery
Parody
Syllogism
Tragedy
45. 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.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Legends
Rising action
Setting
46. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Attitude
Ballad
Novel
Autobiography
47. 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
Tragedy
Literal Language
Legends
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
48. 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
Literal
Protagonist
Imagery
Figurative Language
49. 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
Allusion
Denotation
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Animal folk tales
50. 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.)
Irony
Attitude
Diction
Oxymoron