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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Personification
Falling action
Point of view
Climax
2. 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
Hyperbole
Short Story
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Euphemism
3. 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
Myths
Short Story
Novel
Symbol
4. Shorter novels are called ___________
Satire
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
novellas
5. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Rising action
Satire
Oxymoron
6. 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
Denotation
Jargon
Free Verse
Allegory
7. 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
Plot
Myths
Feminine ending
Irony
8. The main thought expressed by a work.
Imagery
Theme
Legends
Connotation
9. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Thesis
Simile
Prose
10. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Imagery
Attitude
Irony
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
11. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Autobiography
Satire
Climax
Personification
12. 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.)
Plot
Rising action
Flashback
Paradox
13. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Syllogism
Sonnet
Rhetorical question
Symbol
14. 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.
Imagery
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Feminine ending
15. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Novel
Sonnet
16. 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
Flashback
Denouement/Resolution
Myths
Soliloquy
17. 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
Rhetorical question
Soliloquy
Sonnet
18. 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.)
Flashback
Analogy
Theme
Convention
19. 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).
Jargon
Tone
Genre
Irony
20. 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.
Theme
Analyzing Poetry
Denouement/Resolution
Jargon
21. 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
Folk tales
Short Story
Simile
22. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Denotation
Rhetorical techniques
Satire
Metaphor
23. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Symbol
Examples of folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Paradox
24. 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?
Flashback
Personification
Free Verse
25. 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.
Metaphor
Jargon
Soliloquy
Style
26. 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
novellas
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Rising action
27. A technique in which the narrative moves to a time prior to that of the main story - Can make a story more interesting by giving it depth
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Flashback
Poetry
28. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Diction
Literal
Falling action
29. 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
Parable
Hyperbole
Figurative Language
Falling action
30. 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
Climax
Metaphor
Tragedy
Iambic Pentameter
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.
Metaphor
Allegory
Rising action
Fairy tales
32. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Feminine ending
Convention
Exposition
33. 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
Novel
Satire
Theme
Climax
34. 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?
Hyperbole
Satire
Irony
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
35. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Denotation
Euphemism
Symbol
Free Verse
36. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Examples of folk tales
Allusion
Novel
Convention
37. 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
Allegory
Narrative techniques
Poetry
Imagery
38. 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
Exposition
Figurative Language
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
39. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Diction
Irony
Literal
Figurative Language
40. 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
Denouement/Resolution
Thesis
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Folk tales
41. 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
Satire
Imagery
Novel
Allusion
42. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Genre
Convention
Fairy tales
43. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Figurative Language
Simile
Diction
Convention
44. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Lyrical
Biography
Oxymoron
45. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Convention
Imagery
Tragedy
Climax
46. 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 -
Tragedy
Euphemism
Climax
Analogy
47. 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
Style
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Personification
3 major categories of poetry
48. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Ballad
Protagonist
Fairy tales
Examples of folk tales
49. 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.
novellas
Literal Language
Fairy tales
Personification
50. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Sonnet
Euphemism
Climax
Connotation