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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Literal
Structure
2. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Ballad
Biography
Analyzing Poetry
3. 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.)
Paradox
Attitude
Euphemism
Point of view
4. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Symbol
Jargon
Climax
Free Verse
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
Attitude
Irony
Figurative Language
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
6. 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.
Prose
Rhetorical techniques
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Climax
7. 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
Ballad
Metaphor
Attitude
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
8. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Satire
Paradox
Free Verse
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
Personification
Personification
Thesis
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
10. 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
Literal
Narrative techniques
Allusion
Parable
11. 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.
Figurative Language
Symbol
Setting
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
12. 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
Style
Literal
Tone
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
13. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Climax
Analyzing Poetry
Plot
Parody
14. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Satire
Climax
Structure
Parody
15. 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.
Tone
Style
Analyzing Poetry
Falling action
16. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Personification
Literal
Lyrical
Simile
17. 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
Tone
Denotation
Fairy tales
Analyzing Poetry
18. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Protagonist
Omniscient point of view
Style
19. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Free Verse
Novel
Protagonist
20. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Foreshadowing
Tone
Hyperbole
3 major categories of poetry
21. 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).
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Genre
Autobiography
22. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Alliteration
Animal folk tales
Denouement/Resolution
Allegory
23. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Falling action
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Syllogism
24. 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
Hyperbole
Syllogism
Prose
Parable
25. 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.
Denotation
Rising action
Hyperbole
Feminine ending
26. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Genre
Diction
Climax
Sonnet
27. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Literal
Point of view
Theme
Exposition
28. 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
Satire
Literal Language
Jargon
29. 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
Rising action
Narrative techniques
Literal Language
30. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Soliloquy
Satire
Sonnet
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
31. 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
Foreshadowing
Rising action
Imagery
Protagonist
32. 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
Literal Language
Free Verse
Autobiography
33. 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
Autobiography
Satire
Irony
Novel
34. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Setting
Analyzing Poetry
35. 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
Novel
Hyperbole
Allusion
Falling action
36. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Short Story
Simile
Animal folk tales
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
37. 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
Prose
Simile
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
38. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Connotation
Paradox
Ballad
Tragedy
39. An accurate history of a single person.
Biography
Novel
Sonnet
Novel
40. 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
Figurative Language
Structure
Jargon
Denouement/Resolution
41. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Hyperbole
Symbol
Convention
Rhetorical techniques
42. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Prose
Exposition
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
43. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Metaphor
Plot
Euphemism
Legends
44. 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
Analogy
Style
Paradox
Point of view
45. 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?
Analyzing Poetry
Prose
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Satire
46. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Jargon
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Short Story
47. 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
novellas
Irony
Analogy
Fairy tales
48. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Protagonist
Exposition
3 major categories of poetry
Simile
49. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Parable
Denotation
Novel
Imagery
50. Shorter novels are called ___________
novellas
Iambic Pentameter
Syllogism
Jargon