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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Jargon
Connotation
Novel
2. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Tone
Novel
Folk tales
3. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Prose
3 major categories of poetry
Jargon
Novel
4. 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
Irony
Iambic Pentameter
Autobiography
Plot
5. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Connotation
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Personification
Simile
6. 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
Ballad
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Flashback
Parody
7. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Lyrical
Ballad
Fairy tales
Syllogism
8. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Euphemism
Short Story
Protagonist
Rhetorical question
9. 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
Irony
Poetry
Sonnet
Diction
10. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Flashback
Allusion
Euphemism
Exposition
11. 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
novellas
Imagery
Foreshadowing
Prose
12. An author's account of his or her own life.
Autobiography
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Figurative Language
novellas
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
Parable
Metaphor
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
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.
Rising action
Omniscient point of view
Narrative techniques
Satire
15. 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.'
Symbol
Rhetorical techniques
Metaphor
Imagery
16. The main thought expressed by a work.
Theme
Fairy tales
Diction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
17. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Flashback
Rhetorical question
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Oxymoron
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.)
Convention
3 major categories of poetry
Alliteration
Structure
19. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Parable
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Style
Novel
20. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Examples of folk tales
Diction
Parody
Hyperbole
21. 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
Thesis
Soliloquy
Foreshadowing
Ballad
22. 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.
Rising action
Thesis
Examples of folk tales
Iambic Pentameter
23. 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
Climax
Symbol
Attitude
Setting
24. 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
Denouement/Resolution
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
25. 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
Soliloquy
Genre
Folk tales
Hyperbole
26. 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
Alliteration
Paradox
Theme
Fairy tales
27. 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
Narrative techniques
Personification
Allegory
Paradox
28. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry
Allusion
Rhetorical techniques
29. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Analyzing Poetry
Paradox
Allegory
Sonnet
30. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Symbol
Literal
Animal folk tales
Personification
31. 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.'
Allusion
Lyrical
Analogy
Attitude
32. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Legends
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
33. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Rising action
Examples of folk tales
Figurative Language
Metaphor
34. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Analogy
Denouement/Resolution
Allegory
Novel
35. 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?
Paradox
Analogy
Analyzing Poetry
Falling action
36. 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
Simile
Iambic Pentameter
Tragedy
Structure
37. 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
Sonnet
Personification
Prose
38. 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
Attitude
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Myths
39. 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.
Irony
Flashback
Thesis
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
40. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Allegory
Literal
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Tragedy
41. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Iambic Pentameter
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Sonnet
Ballad
42. 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
Folk tales
Symbol
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
43. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Falling action
Satire
Lyrical
Jargon
44. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Irony
Parody
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
45. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Genre
Tragedy
Climax
Literal Language
46. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Animal folk tales
Fairy tales
Denotation
Jargon
47. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Soliloquy
Tone
Thesis
Autobiography
48. 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
Novel
Biography
Poetry
Style
49. The ordinary form of spoken or written language - without metrical structure - as distinguished from poetry or verse
Theme
Short Story
Prose
Rhetorical techniques
50. 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
Structure
Imagery
Lyrical
Style