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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Rising action
Structure
Tone
2. 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
Myths
Soliloquy
Analogy
Poetry
3. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Irony
Parable
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry
4. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Autobiography
Connotation
Novel
Setting
5. 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
Free Verse
Rhetorical question
Myths
Imagery
6. 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
Parody
Metaphor
Novel
7. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Convention
novellas
Exposition
Novel
8. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Animal folk tales
3 major categories of poetry
Short Story
Folk tales
9. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
3 major categories of poetry
Poetry
Denotation
Genre
10. Shorter novels are called ___________
Metaphor
Novel
Literal
novellas
11. 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
Personification
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Foreshadowing
12. 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
Folk tales
Theme
Diction
Point of view
13. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Theme
14. 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
Figurative Language
Denouement/Resolution
Personification
Biography
15. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Animal folk tales
Ballad
Poetry
Rhetorical techniques
16. 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
Allusion
Satire
Narrative techniques
Falling action
17. 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.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Sonnet
Hyperbole
Paradox
18. 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.)
Figurative Language
Paradox
Irony
Jargon
19. 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
Foreshadowing
Plot
Parody
Symbol
20. 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.)
Ballad
Irony
Euphemism
Attitude
21. 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
Folk tales
Feminine ending
Rhetorical question
Novel
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.'
Denouement/Resolution
Free Verse
Simile
Iambic Pentameter
23. 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?
Climax
Myths
Novel
24. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Rising action
Novel
Plot
Imagery
25. 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?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Free Verse
Style
Alliteration
26. 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. Uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning. 'The black bat night has fl
Attitude
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Rhetorical question
27. 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
Literal
Satire
Symbol
Personification
28. 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.
Climax
Biography
Legends
Jargon
29. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Feminine ending
Fairy tales
Short Story
Personification
30. 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
Biography
Imagery
Rhetorical question
Feminine ending
31. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Fairy tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Denouement/Resolution
Climax
32. 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
Symbol
Irony
Structure
Irony
33. 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
Flashback
Biography
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Climax
34. 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
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Feminine ending
35. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Attitude
Animal folk tales
Imagery
36. An accurate history of a single person.
Biography
Folk tales
Foreshadowing
Jargon
37. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Connotation
Feminine ending
Literal
Novel
38. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Analogy
Jargon
39. 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.
Irony
Sonnet
Rhetorical question
Climax
40. An author's account of his or her own life.
Parable
Autobiography
Hyperbole
Thesis
41. 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
Simile
Iambic Pentameter
Symbol
Feminine ending
42. 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.'
Free Verse
Foreshadowing
Analogy
Rising action
43. 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 -
Plot
Soliloquy
Autobiography
Climax
44. 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
Thesis
Fairy tales
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Narrative techniques
45. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Paradox
Prose
novellas
46. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Attitude
Falling action
Feminine ending
Genre
47. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Narrative techniques
Hyperbole
Examples of folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
48. 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
Style
Free Verse
Thesis
49. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Narrative techniques
Falling action
Free Verse
Alliteration
50. 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.'
Metaphor
Literal Language
Folk tales
Rising action