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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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 -
Analogy
Parable
Feminine ending
Climax
2. 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
Figurative Language
Style
Metaphor
Flashback
3. 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
Theme
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Ballad
Thesis
4. 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.'
Jargon
Point of view
Simile
Personification
5. 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.
Thesis
Flashback
Style
Novel
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.'
3 major categories of poetry
Point of view
Analogy
Soliloquy
7. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Analogy
Analyzing Poetry
Free Verse
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
8. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Oxymoron
Sonnet
Animal folk tales
3 major categories of poetry
9. 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
Symbol
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Satire
10. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Parable
Protagonist
Alliteration
Jargon
11. 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?
Novel
Alliteration
Point of view
12. An accurate history of a single person.
Literal Language
Sonnet
Biography
Free Verse
13. 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.'
Omniscient point of view
Metaphor
Biography
Prose
14. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Imagery
Exposition
Foreshadowing
Parable
15. 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
Foreshadowing
Jargon
Short Story
Tragedy
16. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Fairy tales
Simile
3 major categories of poetry
Examples of folk tales
17. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Point of view
Figurative Language
Poetry
Denotation
18. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Convention
Hyperbole
Euphemism
Attitude
19. 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
Thesis
Irony
Poetry
Attitude
20. 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.
Figurative Language
Setting
Alliteration
Denotation
21. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Paradox
Plot
Parody
Metaphor
22. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
3 major categories of poetry
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
23. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Literal Language
Diction
Parody
Animal folk tales
24. 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?
Narrative techniques
Rhetorical question
Analyzing Poetry
Biography
25. 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
Autobiography
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
26. 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
Syllogism
Myths
Soliloquy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
27. 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
Parable
Imagery
Allegory
Flashback
28. Shorter novels are called ___________
Structure
novellas
Biography
Satire
29. 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
Animal folk tales
Imagery
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Rising action
30. A fictional narrative in prose of considerable length. Shorter works are called novellas - and even shorter ones are called short stories.
Myths
Novel
Rising action
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
31. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Hyperbole
Lyrical
Imagery
Literal
32. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Denouement/Resolution
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Literal Language
Syllogism
33. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Diction
Satire
Omniscient point of view
Biography
34. 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
Personification
Narrative techniques
Free Verse
Parody
35. 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
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Sonnet
Novel
36. 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?
Irony
Free Verse
Parable
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
37. 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.
Literal Language
Theme
Novel
Omniscient point of view
38. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Protagonist
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Foreshadowing
Sonnet
39. 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
Parody
Imagery
Setting
Tragedy
40. 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
Hyperbole
Folk tales
Structure
Irony
41. 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
Falling action
Analogy
Simile
42. 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
Convention
Climax
Alliteration
Iambic Pentameter
43. 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
Irony
Point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
44. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Sonnet
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
45. 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
Foreshadowing
novellas
Irony
46. 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.
Myths
Free Verse
Feminine ending
Omniscient point of view
47. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Allusion
Connotation
Allegory
Point of view
48. 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.)
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
49. 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.)
Climax
Symbol
Attitude
Literal Language
50. 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
Exposition
Foreshadowing
Symbol
Rhetorical techniques