English CSET Subtest I - Part 1

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

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

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

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

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

Device: human characteristics are given to something nonhuman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Common Sense" pamphlet advocating for independence from Great Britain

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

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

"A Dictionary of the English Language" (1755)

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

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

Device: Words that imitate sound

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

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

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

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

"Lolita" and "Pale Fire"

Latin "Metamorphoses" and "Ares Amatora"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Involves readability: sentence length, vocabulary, syntax

"Brave New World" (1932)

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

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

"Moby Dick"

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

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

Device: an implied comparison without like or as

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

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

Device: Inoffensive/ indirect speech

Device: Descriptive effects rather than literal meaning

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

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

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

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

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

The future is assumed

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

"Poor Richard's Almanac " and " Autobiography "

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

"Howl"

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

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

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

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

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

Device: Using descriptive language to enlist the senses

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

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

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

14 line poem originated in Italy with Petrarch

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

Device: Giving human characteristic to nonhuman things

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

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

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

Homer, Sophocles, Aesop

"Rip van Winkle" and "Sleep Hollow"

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

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

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

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

Long work prose fiction, often realistic and addresses societal concerns

/ - Consisting of or featuring trochees.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"A Tale of a Tub"(1704)