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CSET Literature - 2
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1. Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Denoument/resolution

2. 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

3. 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

4. The interrelated actions of a play or a novel that move to a climax and a final resolution.

5. An allegorical story designed to suggest a principle - illustrate a moral - or answer a question.

6. Hero/heroine - One of the main characters of a literary work - Usually in conflict with the antagonist (villain)

7. A question asked for effect - not in expectation of a reply. No reply is expected because the question presupposes only one possible answer.

8. 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?

9. 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

10. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity - and imagination.

11. Type of folk tale - Abound in every culture - In most cases - the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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.

15. 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 -

16. 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?

17. 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

18. A figurative use of language that endows nonhumans (ideas - inanimate objects - animals - abstractions) with human characteristics.

19. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete.

20. 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

21. 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

22. The dictionary meaning of a word - as opposed to connotation.

23. The devices used in effective or persuasive language - Most common examples include contrast - repetitions - paradox - understatement - sarcasm - and rhetorical question.

24. Fairy tales - legends of all types - animal folk tales - fables - tall tales - and humorous anecdotes

25. 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

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