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CSET Literature - 2
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1. 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).
Oxymoron
Genre
Figurative Language
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
2. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Exposition
Examples of folk tales
Structure
3. 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
Figurative Language
Free Verse
Protagonist
Convention
4. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.
Literal
Convention
Allegory
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
5. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.
Lyrical
Denotation
Syllogism
Novel
6. 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
Hyperbole
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Syllogism
Myths
7. 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
Structure
Theme
Rising action
Symbol
8. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.
Denotation
Parable
Tragedy
Literal
9. 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.'
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Tone
Genre
Metaphor
10. 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
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Tone
Autobiography
Parable
11. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Symbol
Feminine ending
Analyzing Poetry
12. 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
Ballad
Foreshadowing
Free Verse
13. 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
Tone
Metaphor
Protagonist
14. 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
Rising action
Flashback
Metaphor
Alliteration
15. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)
Examples of folk tales
Protagonist
Syllogism
Euphemism
16. 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
Short Story
Autobiography
Omniscient point of view
Prose
17. A play with a serious content and an unhappy ending. (Shakespeare's Hamlet - Miller's Death of a Salesman.)
3 major categories of poetry
novellas
Figurative Language
Tragedy
18. A poem having 14 lines - usually in iambic pentameter - and a formal arrangement of rhymes.
Hyperbole
Short Story
Sonnet
Plot
19. 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
Satire
Flashback
Free Verse
Metaphor
20. 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.
Climax
Style
Omniscient point of view
novellas
21. 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.
Sonnet
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Omniscient point of view
Jargon
22. 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.
Attitude
Denouement/Resolution
Climax
Imagery
23. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.
Genre
Personification
Attitude
Literal Language
24. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution
Dramatic structure/elements of fiction
Folk tales
Analyzing Poetry
Sonnet
25. The point when the conflict is resolved - remaining loose ends are tied up - and a moral is intimated or stated directly.
Metaphor
Parable
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Denouement/Resolution
26. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Flashback
Prose
Rhetorical question
27. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities
Oxymoron
Flashback
Animal folk tales
Literal
28. 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
Point of view
Analogy
Analyzing Poetry: What is the tone of the poem?
Irony
29. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness - such as 'deceased' for dead or 'remains' for corpse.
Rhetorical techniques
Euphemism
Fairy tales
Falling action
30. 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
Climax
Strategy/Rhetorical strategy
Biography
Lyrical
31. 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.
Analyzing Poetry: Is the meaning clear?
Diction
Biography
Jargon
32. An author's account of his or her own life.
Narrative techniques
Literal
Autobiography
Parable
33. 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
Poetry
Flashback
Diction
34. 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.'
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Allegory
Simile
Feminine ending
35. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; overstatement.Self - conscious - without the intention of being accepted literally.'The whole world's problems are on my shoulders.'
Poetry
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
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?
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
Rising action
Omniscient point of view
Ballad
37. 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 -
Point of view
Climax
Protagonist
Legends
38. 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
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
Narrative techniques
39. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.
Alliteration
Plot
Imagery
Narrative techniques
40. 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.)
Analyzing Poetry: What is the theme of the poem?
Climax
Novel
Convention
41. The introduction of setting - main characters - and conflict.
Exposition
Parody
Iambic Pentameter
Prose
42. The theme - meaning - or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support.
Thesis
Exposition
Analyzing Poetry: What is the dramatic situation?
3 major categories of poetry
43. 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
Animal folk tales
Novel
Diction
Theme
44. 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
Climax
Rising action
Fairy tales
45. An accurate history of a single person.
Irony
Biography
Simile
Allusion
46. 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.
Protagonist
Ballad
Rising action
Feminine ending
47. The implications of a word or phrase - as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
Short Story
Folk tales
Connotation
Satire
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
Analyzing Poetry: What is the structure of the poem?
Sonnet
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Denouement/Resolution
49. 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
Parable
Novel
Imagery
50. 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.)
Flashback
Paradox
Analyzing Poetry: What are the important images and figures of speech?
Attitude