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CSET Literature - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Exposition
Literal
Allusion
Metaphor
2. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Syllogism
Allusion
Parable
Attitude
3. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Allegory
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Animal folk tales
4. 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
Satire
Irony
Short Story
Autobiography
5. A folk poem that tells a story - uses simple language - and originally was written to be sung.
Jargon
Climax
Ballad
Animal folk tales
6. 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. Uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning. 'The black bat night has fl
Feminine ending
Autobiography
Style
Figurative Language
7. 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.)
Diction
Tragedy
Convention
Imagery
8. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.
Novel
Denotation
Sonnet
Symbol
9. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Metaphor
Poetry
Tragedy
10. 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
Simile
Parody
Oxymoron
Fairy tales
11. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Protagonist
Flashback
Tone
Autobiography
12. 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
Rhetorical techniques
Denotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Legends
13. Word choice; any word/detail that is important to the meaning and effect of the writing.
Alliteration
Diction
Theme
Allegory
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
Plot
Parable
Allegory
Analyzing Poetry
15. 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?
Attitude
Connotation
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Alliteration
16. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Plot
Attitude
Figurative Language
Denotation
17. Poetry that is not rhymed and does not have a regular metrical pattern but is still more rhythmic than most prose.
Personification
Free Verse
3 major categories of poetry
Genre
18. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
Connotation
Plot
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Tragedy
19. 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
Allegory
Attitude
Figurative Language
20. 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
Animal folk tales
Feminine ending
Irony
21. 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?
Analyzing Poetry
Satire
Literal Language
Jargon
22. 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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Protagonist
Satire
Soliloquy
23. 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?
Denotation
Metaphor
24. 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
Folk tales
Metaphor
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Denouement/Resolution
25. 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
Imagery
Climax
Free Verse
Point of view
26. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Euphemism
Attitude
Personification
Myths
27. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Sonnet
Paradox
Soliloquy
Thesis
28. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Rising action
Hyperbole
Syllogism
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
Syllogism
Novel
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Denouement/Resolution
30. 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
Irony
Symbol
Metaphor
Allegory
31. 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
Metaphor
Feminine ending
Irony
32. 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
Autobiography
Figurative Language
Allusion
Free Verse
33. The events that follow from the protagonist's action in the climax.
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Oxymoron
Falling action
Denouement/Resolution
34. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Novel
Personification
Connotation
Narrative techniques
35. The main thought expressed by a work.
Exposition
Theme
Flashback
Soliloquy
36. 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
Narrative techniques
Falling action
Style
Imagery
37. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Falling action
Fairy tales
Hyperbole
Setting
38. 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
Euphemism
Omniscient point of view
Allusion
Hyperbole
39. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Metaphor
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Structure
40. 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
Poetry
Folk tales
Allegory
Analyzing Poetry
41. 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.)
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Rhetorical question
Allusion
Paradox
42. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Rhetorical techniques
Point of view
Figurative Language
43. 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.'
Denotation
Analogy
Free Verse
Figurative Language
44. 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.
Poetry
Satire
Hyperbole
Iambic Pentameter
45. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics. 'The angry sea crashed against the wall.'
Personification
Tone
Symbol
Metaphor
46. 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
Tone
Iambic Pentameter
Hyperbole
Flashback
47. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Ballad
Narrative techniques
Syllogism
Rhetorical question
48. The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.
Climax
Structure
Alliteration
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
49. 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
Oxymoron
Short Story
Personification
50. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Diction
Personification
Lyrical
Exposition