English CSET Subtest I - Part 1

Device: an implied comparison without like or as

Device: The literal meaning of the words as found in the dictionary

"Jane Eyre" dark imagery of a long-suffering heroine

1200bc - 455ce, Forms: lyric poetry, greek drama (tragedy, comedy)(chorus, deus ex machina)

Poem: songlike story, iambic form alternating lines of 4 stresses and 3 stresses

Latin "Metamorphoses" and "Ares Amatora"

Critic: Literary work context and how it defies or fits the conventions of its period

1600-1800, Native American literature, Puritan literature, Revolutionary writing, and Slave/Freedom narratives

Genre: A tale that provides a moral lesson, often using animals with human characteristics

Device: Figure of speech. Words that are replaced with another word that are closely associated

"My Antonia," wrote about the life on Nebraska prairie; pastoral writing

"The Second Coming" and "Among the School Children"

Device: human characteristics are given to something nonhuman

Genre: Work that ridicules the vices and follies of an individual or society

500ce - 1485ce (15th century) , Themes: honor, duty, and religious, allegorical stories and poems.

14 line poem originated in Italy with Petrarch

Genre: Japanese poetic form. 3 lines with 5,7,5 syllables

"The Awakening" (1899) set in her native home New Orleans

"A Dictionary of the English Language" (1755)

/ - Consisting of or featuring trochees.

1960-present, Quest for identity; Expressionism; Multicultural; Juxtaposition;

1860-1910, literary works readers relate to characters, presenting culture and geography

1550-1660 (16th century), Eizabethan and Jacobean Drama, class structure, social hierarchy

Critic: contain many possible meanings/ criticism originated from the postmodernism period

Homer, Sophocles, Aesop

The future is assumed

Genre: poetic movement in France where poems are focused on moods and transient sensations.

1832-1900 (19th century), themes prose struggle, character, adventure, skepticism

1350, Poem: 14 lines 2 quatrains with rhyme scheme ABBA 6 verse with rhyming pairs

1900-1950s (20th century), novel, disilluionment, stream of consciousness, dystopian, allusion, irony, satire, nonlinear

"Lolita" and "Pale Fire"

"Howl"

Genre: Fictional narrative, symbolic meaning, "Pilgrim's Progress" by JB & "Animal Farm" by GO

Early to mid 1600s poets, metaphor, extended comparison, and subtle, exploring fundamental nature, reality, humanity

French Neoclassical, "El Cid", Spanish knight, love for a girl and revenge on her father.

Device: When the author places two different events side by side.

Genre: the blends of historical material with invented elements like wizards and magic

Genre: Poetic movement in America, Modernism period, free verse, Ezra Pound; H.D. Doolittle

Device: Descriptive effects rather than literal meaning

Genre: Prose of work written in first person expressing strong opinions about some topic

Using "glad words" that sound important but actually, have little or no real meaning.

Avoiding the key issue and bringing up another important issue as a diversion.

Critic: Focuses on underlying patterns and symmetries in literary, society and culture

Device: quotation from another source at the beginning of the story to suggest the theme

Genre: Narrative that depicts an anti-utopia, totalitarian world

Genre: A novel or play that presents humanity's plight as meningless and without purpose

"Lyrical Ballads" (1798) poem, reject rigid conventions of language, simple languages, Romantic period

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" a poem, an old sailor's account of cursed sea voyage, tragedy

"A Tale of a Tub"(1704)

"Three Lives", "The Autobiography of Alice Toklas"; feminist during the lost generation

Genre: Literary work that generally written in rhythmic lines various lengths

"Bless me, Ultima," novel rich of Mexican folklore of a man synthesizing old and new.

Device: the parts of the word stands for the whole meaning

"The Waste Land", "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

"Brave New World" (1932)

Device: Words that imitate sound

"Paradise Lost" (1671), poem, Satan, Theme, mankind has fallen from God's grace.

"Rip van Winkle" and "Sleep Hollow"

Transcendentalist; unity of nature and the universe; "Self-Reliance"

Device: Using words that begin with the same consonant sounds near each other

"Ozymandias", a lyric, vanity of ancient kings, monuments.

Device: Poetry or line of a dramatic verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Device: Usually in blank verse, thoughts and emotions; first person point of view

Device: Using descriptive language to enlist the senses

"Common Sense" pamphlet advocating for independence from Great Britain

"Leaves of Grass" and "Song of Myself"; free verse with repeated construction, biblical verses.

Subgenre of romanticism: William Faulkner, Flannery O'Conner, Harper Lee

Genre: Poem, 8-line, 1st, 4th, and 7th lines are identical. 2nd and 8th lines are identical

"Poor Richard's Almanac " and " Autobiography "

1910-1945, alienation, fragmentation, breaking tradition, psychoanalytical analysis

Involves readability: sentence length, vocabulary, syntax

The argument assumes as evidence the very conclusion it is trying to prove

Device: Used in ancient Greek theater. Group of people will explain the plot to the audience

"Mary Barton" novel about social problems caused by industrialism in England

This argument taps into people's desire to be like by the group or to belong.

Structure, convention of language, demand on background knowledge, and layers of meaning

"Last of the Mohicans" and "The Pioneers"; adventure novels in nautical setting

Attacking the person's character instead of the person's idea or opinion

"The Flea" (1600) famous for metaphysical poetry.

"Moby Dick"

Novels that describes the development of young people from childhood to maturity

"Charge of the Light Brigade" (mid 1800), Victorian values

"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" book on racism and freedom

The Iliad and The Odyssey: epic poems, using formal verse

Device: The continuation of a clause or sentence from one line or lines of poetry to the next

Genre: Ancient story that presents the exploitations of Gods and Goddess, life and nature

A metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables

"Farewell to Arms", "The Sun Also Rises", "Old Man and the Sea"

"Bartholomew Fair", "Every Man in His Humour"

A form of deductive reasoning with a major/minor premise and conclusion

"novel of formation"; Gustave F. SE & Thomas M. MM

Device: Giving human characteristic to nonhuman things

Device: Inoffensive/ indirect speech

Long work prose fiction, often realistic and addresses societal concerns

1798-1850s (18th century), themes, prose, departure from reason, nature, supernatural, individual

"Mac Flecknoe" (1682) famous for establishing heroic couplets, England's first "Poet Laureate"

Story: Alliteration, metaphor, foreshadowing, flashback, oxymoron, personification, and symbolism

Critic: Freudian concepts (repressed consciousness and Superego) in the literary work

Genre: Written in imitation of another literary work with intentions to ridicule "Don Quixote"

1660-1798 (17th century) use elegant heroic couplets and satirical humor