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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Free Verse
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Plot
Climax
2. 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
Parable
Soliloquy
Metaphor
Imagery
3. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Simile
3 major categories of poetry
Novel
Denouement/Resolution
4. 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
Prose
Falling action
Theme
Myths
5. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Plot
Satire
Metaphor
6. 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.'
Analogy
Diction
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Setting
7. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Animal folk tales
Metaphor
Metaphor
Simile
8. 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?
Analyzing Poetry
Setting
Personification
Lyrical
9. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
3 major categories of poetry
Fairy tales
Satire
10. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Euphemism
Rising action
11. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Imagery
Tragedy
Protagonist
Folk tales
12. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Imagery
Structure
Autobiography
13. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Irony
Literal Language
Metaphor
3 major categories of poetry
14. 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
Biography
Thesis
Ballad
15. 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
Parable
Flashback
Hyperbole
Fairy tales
16. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Allegory
Diction
Parody
Tone
17. 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
Myths
Exposition
3 major categories of poetry
18. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Euphemism
Alliteration
19. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Biography
20. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Falling action
Ballad
Legends
Imagery
21. 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
Imagery
Protagonist
3 major categories of poetry
Rising action
22. 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
Tragedy
Metaphor
Free Verse
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
23. 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.
Allegory
Syllogism
Style
Protagonist
24. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Literal Language
Satire
Personification
Diction
25. 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
Oxymoron
Syllogism
Literal Language
Fairy tales
26. 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
Jargon
Feminine ending
Satire
27. 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
Metaphor
3 major categories of poetry
Diction
Foreshadowing
28. 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 -
Falling action
Climax
Syllogism
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
29. 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
Tone
Feminine ending
Free Verse
Parody
30. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Figurative Language
Metaphor
31. 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
Allusion
Diction
Imagery
Folk tales
32. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Legends
Climax
Iambic Pentameter
33. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Rising action
Hyperbole
Sonnet
Exposition
34. 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
Novel
Lyrical
Attitude
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
35. 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
Convention
Imagery
Satire
36. 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
Autobiography
Folk tales
Personification
37. Shorter novels are called ___________
Convention
novellas
Oxymoron
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
38. 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 structure of the poem?
Convention
Oxymoron
Literal Language
39. 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.
Metaphor
Exposition
Myths
Omniscient point of view
40. 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
Soliloquy
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Setting
Allegory
41. 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.
Setting
Tone
Parody
Symbol
42. 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
Tone
Narrative techniques
Rising action
Protagonist
43. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Alliteration
Rhetorical techniques
44. 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
Figurative Language
Syllogism
Setting
Novel
45. 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.)
Iambic Pentameter
Attitude
Plot
Myths
46. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Personification
Style
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Climax
47. 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.'
Simile
Analyzing Poetry
Jargon
Hyperbole
48. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Foreshadowing
Autobiography
Metaphor
Free Verse
49. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Denotation
Parody
Examples of folk tales
Climax
50. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Animal folk tales
Parable
Myths
Oxymoron