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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Oxymoron
2. 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
Flashback
Setting
Tragedy
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
3. 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).
Genre
Alliteration
Style
Flashback
4. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Literal
Personification
Falling action
Fairy tales
5. 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
Personification
Setting
Feminine ending
Animal folk tales
6. 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
Allegory
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Alliteration
Literal
7. 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.'
Foreshadowing
Analogy
Folk tales
Legends
8. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Symbol
Biography
Protagonist
9. 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
Symbol
Feminine ending
Point of view
Short Story
10. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Simile
Tragedy
Foreshadowing
11. The main thought expressed by a work.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Theme
Tragedy
Prose
12. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Satire
Autobiography
Syllogism
Ballad
13. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Denouement/Resolution
novellas
Simile
14. 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?
Euphemism
Iambic Pentameter
Tragedy
15. 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
novellas
Short Story
Novel
16. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Figurative Language
Rhetorical question
Animal folk tales
Jargon
17. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Short Story
Thesis
Style
Prose
18. 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.
Allusion
Setting
Autobiography
Symbol
19. 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
Setting
Irony
Theme
Denouement/Resolution
20. 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.
Personification
Omniscient point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Poetry
21. 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.)
Attitude
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Fairy tales
Lyrical
22. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Genre
Feminine ending
Analogy
Exposition
23. 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.)
Short Story
Oxymoron
Literal
Structure
24. 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
Soliloquy
Free Verse
Hyperbole
25. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Falling action
Personification
Climax
Point of view
26. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Analogy
Climax
Irony
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
27. 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?
Thesis
Convention
Plot
Analyzing Poetry
28. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Legends
Short Story
Personification
3 major categories of poetry
29. 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: Is the meaning clear?
Convention
Denouement/Resolution
30. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
3 major categories of poetry
Exposition
Feminine ending
Euphemism
31. An accurate history of a single person.
Structure
Biography
Point of view
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
32. 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
Convention
Parable
Poetry
Hyperbole
33. 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
Genre
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Fairy tales
Foreshadowing
34. 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
Figurative Language
Literal Language
Ballad
35. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Falling action
Examples of folk tales
Feminine ending
Figurative Language
36. An author's account of his or her own life.
Structure
Autobiography
Imagery
Point of view
37. 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
Allegory
Feminine ending
Sonnet
38. Narrative - dramatic - lyric
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
3 major categories of poetry
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Exposition
39. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Fairy tales
Short Story
Novel
40. 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
Syllogism
Literal
Simile
Symbol
41. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Irony
Figurative Language
Sonnet
Rhetorical techniques
42. 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
Myths
Connotation
Examples of folk tales
Structure
43. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Hyperbole
Novel
Lyrical
Denotation
44. 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
Convention
Rising action
Biography
45. 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
Ballad
Allegory
Hyperbole
Short Story
46. 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.
Thesis
Denotation
Allusion
Literal Language
47. 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
Irony
Hyperbole
Imagery
Animal folk tales
48. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Climax
Fairy tales
Alliteration
Folk tales
49. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.
Parable
Setting
Climax
Rhetorical techniques
50. A composition that imitates the style of another composition - normally for comic effect.
Syllogism
Tragedy
Irony
Parody