English CSET Subtest I - Part 1

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

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

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

"Rip van Winkle" and "Sleep Hollow"

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

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

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

/ - Consisting of or featuring trochees.

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

"Moby Dick"

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Poor Richard's Almanac " and " Autobiography "

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

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

Device: Using descriptive language to enlist the senses

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

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

14 line poem originated in Italy with Petrarch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Common Sense" pamphlet advocating for independence from Great Britain

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

Involves readability: sentence length, vocabulary, syntax

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Howl"

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

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

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

"A Tale of a Tub"(1704)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Long work prose fiction, often realistic and addresses societal concerns

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

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

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

The future is assumed

Device: Words that imitate sound

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Homer, Sophocles, Aesop

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

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

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

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

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

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

Device: human characteristics are given to something nonhuman

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

Device: Giving human characteristic to nonhuman things

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

"Lolita" and "Pale Fire"

Device: an implied comparison without like or as

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Device: Descriptive effects rather than literal meaning

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

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

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

"A Dictionary of the English Language" (1755)

Latin "Metamorphoses" and "Ares Amatora"

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

"Brave New World" (1932)

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

Device: Inoffensive/ indirect speech

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

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

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