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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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.'
Poetry
Analogy
Imagery
Prose
2. 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
Structure
Novel
Falling action
Short Story
3. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Plot
Novel
Animal folk tales
Free Verse
4. The main thought expressed by a work.
Jargon
Theme
Poetry
Feminine ending
5. 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?
Syllogism
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Novel
Rhetorical techniques
6. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Omniscient point of view
Alliteration
Euphemism
Allegory
7. 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
Point of view
Climax
Personification
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
8. 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
Thesis
Alliteration
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
9. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Climax
Imagery
Symbol
10. An accurate history of a single person.
Narrative techniques
Allusion
Simile
Biography
11. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Diction
Convention
Denotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
12. 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 -
Irony
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Personification
13. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Allusion
Syllogism
Denouement/Resolution
Literal
14. 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
Myths
Setting
Soliloquy
Prose
15. 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
Feminine ending
Setting
Legends
Rhetorical techniques
16. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Free Verse
Allusion
Genre
17. 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
Poetry
Autobiography
Irony
Figurative Language
18. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Tone
Soliloquy
Personification
19. 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
Hyperbole
Literal Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Allegory
20. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Protagonist
Irony
3 major categories of poetry
Climax
21. 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
Analogy
Allusion
Climax
22. 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.'
Legends
Paradox
Simile
Attitude
23. 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 tone of the poem?
Literal Language
Diction
Flashback
24. Think about: The parts/structural divisions of the poem and how they are related to each other - The punctuation - Repetitions (i.e. parallel syntax or the use of a simile in each sentence) - The logic of the poem. Does it ask questions and then answ
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Fairy tales
Convention
25. 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
Parody
Foreshadowing
Alliteration
Soliloquy
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).
Genre
Tone
Diction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
27. 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.)
Convention
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Flashback
Free Verse
28. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Imagery
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Irony
29. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Structure
Imagery
Connotation
Simile
30. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Autobiography
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Denouement/Resolution
Examples of folk tales
31. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Narrative techniques
Falling action
Iambic Pentameter
Figurative Language
32. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Sonnet
Protagonist
Foreshadowing
33. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Parable
Tragedy
Hyperbole
Novel
34. 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.)
Allegory
Attitude
Poetry
Analogy
35. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Rhetorical techniques
Figurative Language
Personification
Flashback
36. 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
Analogy
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Examples of folk tales
Flashback
37. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Prose
Exposition
Foreshadowing
3 major categories of poetry
38. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Novel
Climax
Plot
Imagery
39. An author's account of his or her own life.
Autobiography
Tone
Rhetorical question
Connotation
40. 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.
Rising action
Convention
Hyperbole
Style
41. 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
Tone
Connotation
Imagery
Lyrical
42. 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
Convention
Metaphor
Literal
Oxymoron
43. 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
Denouement/Resolution
Short Story
Metaphor
Figurative Language
44. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
novellas
Denotation
Short Story
Lyrical
45. 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
Denouement/Resolution
Biography
Syllogism
Diction
46. 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
Plot
Folk tales
Analyzing Poetry
Allegory
47. 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.
Denouement/Resolution
Fairy tales
Rising action
Convention
48. 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.
Myths
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Animal folk tales
Denotation
49. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Parody
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Feminine ending
Rhetorical techniques
50. 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
Syllogism
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Exposition
Autobiography