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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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.'
Animal folk tales
Simile
Syllogism
Hyperbole
2. 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
Paradox
Biography
Diction
Imagery
3. 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
Attitude
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Feminine ending
Omniscient point of view
4. 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
Personification
Paradox
Figurative Language
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
Rhetorical techniques
Analyzing Poetry
Hyperbole
Satire
6. 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
Literal
Literal Language
Attitude
7. 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
Denotation
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Figurative Language
8. 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
Allusion
Myths
novellas
Prose
9. 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: Is the meaning clear?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Short Story
Flashback
10. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Structure
Imagery
Foreshadowing
11. 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.
Novel
Style
Imagery
Examples of folk tales
12. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Lyrical
Hyperbole
Exposition
Examples of folk tales
13. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Theme
Alliteration
Myths
Lyrical
14. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Hyperbole
Omniscient point of view
Parable
Literal Language
15. 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
Prose
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Alliteration
16. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Foreshadowing
Convention
Personification
Protagonist
17. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Tragedy
Allusion
Jargon
18. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Hyperbole
Rhetorical techniques
Oxymoron
Alliteration
19. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Ballad
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Short Story
Soliloquy
20. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Novel
Climax
Exposition
Rhetorical question
21. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Climax
Hyperbole
Connotation
Sonnet
22. 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.)
Climax
Oxymoron
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Sonnet
23. 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
Point of view
Rising action
Oxymoron
Setting
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?
Falling action
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Rising action
25. The main thought expressed by a work.
Prose
Theme
Soliloquy
Satire
26. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Autobiography
Fairy tales
Diction
Metaphor
27. 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
Tragedy
Hyperbole
Climax
Novel
28. 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
Symbol
Allusion
Lyrical
Prose
29. 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.
Irony
Oxymoron
Satire
Climax
30. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Animal folk tales
Falling action
Diction
31. 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?
Flashback
Legends
Protagonist
Analyzing Poetry
32. Shorter novels are called ___________
Animal folk tales
novellas
Symbol
Iambic Pentameter
33. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Paradox
Allegory
Irony
34. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Plot
Denotation
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
35. 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
3 major categories of poetry
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
36. 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.
Satire
Imagery
Omniscient point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
37. 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
Imagery
Legends
Climax
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
38. 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
Folk tales
Soliloquy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Flashback
39. 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
Jargon
Alliteration
Short Story
Folk tales
40. 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.
Paradox
Imagery
Rising action
Point of view
41. 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
Falling action
Lyrical
Metaphor
Rising action
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
Prose
Convention
Sonnet
Narrative techniques
43. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Genre
Euphemism
Irony
Tragedy
44. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Climax
Alliteration
Figurative Language
Personification
45. 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.
Foreshadowing
Analogy
Jargon
Hyperbole
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
Autobiography
Irony
Personification
Narrative techniques
47. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Novel
Hyperbole
48. 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
Irony
Personification
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Short Story
49. 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
Narrative techniques
Autobiography
Diction
Fairy tales
50. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Metaphor
Paradox
Fairy tales
Animal folk tales