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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Poetry
Figurative Language
Rhetorical question
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
2. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Tragedy
Syllogism
3 major categories of poetry
Attitude
3. 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
Figurative Language
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
4. 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.
Myths
Rising action
Denotation
Denouement/Resolution
5. 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.
Short Story
Irony
Setting
Feminine ending
6. The main thought expressed by a work.
Animal folk tales
Convention
Theme
Parody
7. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Narrative techniques
Tragedy
Hyperbole
Personification
8. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Exposition
Falling action
Rhetorical techniques
Folk tales
9. An accurate history of a single person.
Biography
Free Verse
Hyperbole
Autobiography
10. 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
Feminine ending
Metaphor
Satire
Simile
11. 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
Free Verse
Irony
Allegory
Theme
12. 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
Narrative techniques
Short Story
Symbol
Point of view
13. 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
Novel
Point of view
Feminine ending
Ballad
14. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Short Story
Jargon
15. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Novel
Structure
Protagonist
Hyperbole
16. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Hyperbole
Novel
Syllogism
17. 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
Animal folk tales
Euphemism
Syllogism
18. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Theme
novellas
Denouement/Resolution
Rhetorical question
19. 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
Analyzing Poetry
Exposition
Denotation
Figurative Language
20. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Novel
Alliteration
Examples of folk tales
Metaphor
21. 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
Climax
Iambic Pentameter
Allegory
Foreshadowing
22. 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
Feminine ending
Climax
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
23. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Tragedy
Hyperbole
Exposition
Rhetorical question
24. 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?
Metaphor
Prose
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
25. 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: What is the theme of the poem?
Examples of folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Figurative Language
26. 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.)
Paradox
3 major categories of poetry
Theme
Novel
27. 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 -
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Climax
Parable
Diction
28. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Analyzing Poetry
Point of view
Animal folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
29. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Free Verse
Jargon
Feminine ending
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
Exposition
Novel
3 major categories of poetry
Imagery
31. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Prose
Irony
Metaphor
Connotation
32. 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
Genre
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Novel
Climax
33. 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.
Alliteration
Feminine ending
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Style
34. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Figurative Language
Soliloquy
Climax
35. Shorter novels are called ___________
Falling action
novellas
Protagonist
Omniscient point of view
36. 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
Flashback
Allegory
Metaphor
Alliteration
37. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Figurative Language
Climax
Connotation
38. A combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms. (Romeo's line 'feather of lead - bright smoke - cold fire - sick health' contains four examples of the device.)
Theme
Oxymoron
Flashback
Personification
39. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Poetry
Literal
Euphemism
Symbol
40. 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.
Jargon
Paradox
Poetry
Literal Language
41. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Denouement/Resolution
Soliloquy
Parody
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
42. 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
Syllogism
Climax
Irony
Connotation
43. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Simile
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Lyrical
44. 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.)
Literal
Exposition
Attitude
Convention
45. 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.
Point of view
Climax
Hyperbole
Euphemism
46. 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
Structure
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Plot
Iambic Pentameter
47. 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
Hyperbole
Fairy tales
Novel
Hyperbole
48. 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
Novel
Personification
Simile
Feminine ending
49. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Plot
Denotation
Tone
Poetry
50. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
Diction
Thesis
Poetry