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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Fairy tales
Omniscient point of view
Flashback
Protagonist
2. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Free Verse
3 major categories of poetry
Syllogism
Attitude
3. Type of folk tale - Narratives that often include creation stories and explain tribal beginnings - May incorporate supernatural beings or quasi - historical figures (e.g. King Arthur - Lady Godiva) - Told and retold as if they are based on facts; alw
Setting
Legends
Irony
Allusion
4. An author's account of his or her own life.
Symbol
Autobiography
Analyzing Poetry
Denouement/Resolution
5. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Structure
Denotation
Tragedy
6. 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.
Figurative Language
Literal Language
Examples of folk tales
Climax
7. 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
Examples of folk tales
Metaphor
Parody
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
8. 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
Legends
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Style
9. 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
Autobiography
Oxymoron
Analogy
Imagery
10. An accurate history of a single person.
Biography
Imagery
Personification
Rising action
11. 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
Sonnet
Iambic Pentameter
Theme
Foreshadowing
12. 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?
Jargon
Literal Language
Sonnet
13. 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.
3 major categories of poetry
novellas
Prose
Hyperbole
14. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Animal folk tales
Euphemism
Oxymoron
Metaphor
15. 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
Short Story
Satire
Genre
Lyrical
16. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Free Verse
Ballad
Short Story
Literal
17. 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.
Ballad
Syllogism
Style
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
18. 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?
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry
Biography
Tragedy
19. 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.'
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Irony
Simile
20. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Alliteration
Paradox
Iambic Pentameter
Protagonist
21. 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
Animal folk tales
Novel
Imagery
Rhetorical techniques
22. 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.)
Biography
Poetry
Point of view
Paradox
23. 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
Style
Myths
Paradox
Poetry
24. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Literal Language
Tragedy
Flashback
Plot
25. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Biography
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Thesis
26. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Rhetorical techniques
Symbol
Soliloquy
Biography
27. 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
Style
Examples of folk tales
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
novellas
28. 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
Analyzing Poetry
Short Story
Attitude
Paradox
29. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Falling action
Tragedy
Climax
Imagery
30. 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.
Autobiography
Literal Language
Feminine ending
Imagery
31. 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?
Exposition
Legends
Parable
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
32. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Soliloquy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Symbol
33. 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
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Structure
Theme
34. 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.
Allegory
Oxymoron
Rising action
Lyrical
35. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Hyperbole
Thesis
Rhetorical question
Protagonist
36. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Novel
Fairy tales
Denouement/Resolution
Figurative Language
37. 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
Fairy tales
Analyzing Poetry
Structure
Genre
38. 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
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Flashback
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
39. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Style
Point of view
Rhetorical question
Diction
40. 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
Jargon
Narrative techniques
Irony
41. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Convention
Personification
Point of view
Hyperbole
42. 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
Folk tales
Allegory
Figurative Language
Foreshadowing
43. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Ballad
Autobiography
Imagery
Connotation
44. 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).
Oxymoron
Feminine ending
Thesis
Genre
45. 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.
Analogy
Climax
Literal Language
Omniscient point of view
46. 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
Omniscient point of view
Irony
Oxymoron
Flashback
47. The main thought expressed by a work.
Imagery
Convention
Examples of folk tales
Theme
48. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Genre
Protagonist
Lyrical
Tone
49. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Examples of folk tales
Autobiography
Allegory
Climax
50. 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
Symbol
Parable
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Connotation