Knowledge Of Literature & Literary Analysis Test Questions – Flashcards
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Literature
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The power and versatility of the language is reflected in....
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Traditional Literature
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Consist on stories that are passed down from one group to another over time.
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folk tales, legends, fables, fairy tales, tall tales and myths
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Included in Traditional Literature
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tall tales
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a humorous story that tells about exaggerated or impossible events Traditional Literature
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Fantasy
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Comprises stories with impossible elements such as talking animals or magical events.
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comprise
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include or contain
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Science fiction
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Is a type of fantasy that relies heavily on scientific and technological themes.
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Realistic Fiction
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Consist of stories in which the plots, characters and settings could plausibly be observed in real life
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plausibly
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easy to believe on the basis of available evidence
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Historical Fiction
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Consists of stories set in particular places and times in the past> The characters may be fictional, real, or convine.
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Mysteries
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Are suspenseful stories about puzzling events that are not understood until the end of the story
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Novels, Short stories
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Are other forms of fiction
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Nonfiction
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Informational texts, biographies, autobiographies.
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Informational texts
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provide facts about any of a variety of topics
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Biographies
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an account of the series of events making up a person's life, tells the story of someone's life and are told from the perspective of another writer
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Autobiography
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a biography of yourself
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Satire
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form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly
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Novel
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A form of fiction that presents and extended prose narrative
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prose
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ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter; referring to speech or writing other than verse
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Gothic novel
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A novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terrors pervades the action
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Stream-of-consciousness novel
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a type of psychological novel in which a story emerges from and is often limited by the narrative perspective of the stream of consciousness of one or more characters.
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Stream-of-consciousness
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A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.
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Epistolary novel
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tells narrative through letters (beginning of Frankenstein by Mary Shelly).
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Novelistic Writing include
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Realism, romanticism, impressionism, expressionism, naturalism, neoclassicism, modernism, post-modernism
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The plot
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The main events in a long narrative comprise the......
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intercalary chapters
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Alternate between the main story and peripheral or parallel stories
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peripheral
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related to the key issue but not of central importance
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Theme of the story
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the interplay of plot and characters determines in large part the..
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Topic
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Can be express as a phrase, is general (The prevalence of Humanity)
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theme
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Turns a topic in statement and a is more specific, message about the topic (Humans are helpless in the unpredictable hands of fate)
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statement
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A definite or clear expression of something in speech or writing: "do you agree with this statement?".
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Modern Short Stories
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emphasizes character development through scenes rather that summary statements
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Traditional short fiction
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parable, fable or folktale
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parable
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a short moral story
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fable
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a brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters
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folktale
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a story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
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Poetry
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Involves the innovative, often figurative use of language to stimulate thoughts and feeling in the reader
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Rhyme scheme
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Repeated rhyme in a poem is referred as.., The pattern or sequence in which end rhyme occurs throughout a poem. The first end sound is represented with an "a," the second end sound is represented with a "b," and so on. When the first sound is repeated at the end of another line within the poem, it is also designated as "a."
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schemes
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plans
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Stanza
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Grouping lines in metrical order
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Entire group of letters
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Letters are used to represent repeating sounds and the entire group of letters represents the rhyme scheme ab ab ab
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End rhyme
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Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry, most common rhyme
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Internal rhyme
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a rhyme between words in the same line
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masculine rhyme
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A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable, Rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words. Examples include "keep" and "sleep," "glow" and "no," and "spell" and "impel."
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feminine rhyme
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a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed, as "waken" and "forsaken" and "audition" and "rendition." Feminine rhyme is sometimes called double rhyme., lines rhymed by their final two syllables
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Forms of poetry
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open and close
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Open-form poetry
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or free verse, has not set rules regarding number of lines, rhyme, scheme, or meter
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meter poetry
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a basically regular pattern of stressed and unstsressed syllables in poetry
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Closed-form poetry
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follow conventions governing the number of lines, the rhyme, the scheme and the meter.
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types of closed form poetry
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sonnets, epics, ballads, odes, villanelles, sestinas and blank verse.
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sonnets
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a 14 line poem
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epics
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long poems that tell the stories of heroes
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ballads
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songlike poems that tell a story often dealing w/ adventure and/or romance
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odes
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Poems that express strong emotions about life.
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villanelles
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The highly structured is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains
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refrain
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a regularly "repeated" line or group of lines in a poem or song
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sestinas
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39 lines and repeat words at certain junctions like a dialogue almost
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blank verse
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unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
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iambic pentameter
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a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable
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iambic
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one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable
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Essay
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Nonfiction A short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative.
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expository essay
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an essay that explains, informs, or presents information
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argumentative essay
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the reader may be provoked
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persuasive essay
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presents arguements and tries to convince readers to adopt a certain point of view
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critical essay
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to critique and evaluate a piece of writing, a play, or an author's style.
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autobiographical essay
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the reader may become acquainted
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acquainted
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made familiar with
