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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Hyperbole
Soliloquy
Setting
Satire
2. 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
Setting
Rhetorical question
Connotation
Poetry
3. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Ballad
Plot
Rhetorical techniques
Metaphor
4. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Connotation
Literal
Free Verse
Folk tales
5. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Feminine ending
Hyperbole
Lyrical
Satire
6. 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
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Folk tales
Foreshadowing
Biography
7. 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
Plot
Personification
Imagery
Parody
8. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Personification
Allusion
Metaphor
9. 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
Irony
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Climax
10. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry
Diction
11. 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.'
Oxymoron
Allusion
Prose
Analogy
12. 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.
Connotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Literal Language
Plot
13. 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.
Irony
Style
Irony
Hyperbole
14. 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
Flashback
Literal
Figurative Language
Allegory
15. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Rhetorical question
Thesis
Figurative Language
Denouement/Resolution
16. 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
Poetry
Parable
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
17. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Lyrical
Personification
Animal folk tales
Feminine ending
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.)
Style
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Genre
Convention
19. 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
Irony
Poetry
Fairy tales
Foreshadowing
20. 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
Hyperbole
Myths
Tragedy
Free Verse
21. 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
Jargon
Short Story
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Narrative techniques
22. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Diction
Figurative Language
Lyrical
Connotation
23. 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).
Foreshadowing
Genre
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Alliteration
24. 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.
Lyrical
3 major categories of poetry
Setting
Biography
25. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Rhetorical techniques
Hyperbole
Point of view
26. 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
Foreshadowing
Narrative techniques
Imagery
Genre
27. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Personification
Falling action
Omniscient point of view
Figurative Language
28. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Figurative Language
Prose
Parody
Ballad
29. The main thought expressed by a work.
Attitude
Oxymoron
Theme
Hyperbole
30. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Tragedy
Structure
Oxymoron
Parody
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?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Feminine ending
Rising action
Poetry
32. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Free Verse
Climax
Symbol
Foreshadowing
33. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Myths
Rising action
Novel
Free Verse
34. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Satire
Feminine ending
Analyzing Poetry
Examples of folk tales
35. 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
Legends
Tone
Paradox
Connotation
36. 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
Style
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Lyrical
Climax
37. 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
Figurative Language
Connotation
Point of view
Jargon
38. 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
Satire
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Imagery
Autobiography
39. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Syllogism
Poetry
Falling action
Legends
40. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Symbol
Parody
Parable
Animal folk tales
41. 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 -
Climax
Parable
Literal Language
Thesis
42. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
3 major categories of poetry
Novel
Novel
Examples of folk tales
43. An author's account of his or her own life.
Autobiography
Alliteration
Analyzing Poetry
Metaphor
44. 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
Attitude
Tone
Short Story
45. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Jargon
Ballad
Plot
Denotation
46. 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
Attitude
Ballad
Rhetorical techniques
47. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Tragedy
Oxymoron
Connotation
Analyzing Poetry
48. 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
Simile
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Examples of folk tales
Tragedy
49. 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?
Genre
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Myths
Analyzing Poetry
50. 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.
Syllogism
Omniscient point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Rising action