English CSET Subtest I - Part 1

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

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

Device: Inoffensive/ indirect speech

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

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

Latin "Metamorphoses" and "Ares Amatora"

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

Device: Giving human characteristic to nonhuman things

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

Device: Words that imitate sound

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

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

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

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

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

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

The future is assumed

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

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

Long work prose fiction, often realistic and addresses societal concerns

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

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

"Poor Richard's Almanac " and " Autobiography "

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

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

Homer, Sophocles, Aesop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Involves readability: sentence length, vocabulary, syntax

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

"Moby Dick"

Device: Using descriptive language to enlist the senses

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

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.

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

"Brave New World" (1932)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14 line poem originated in Italy with Petrarch

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

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

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

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

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

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

Device: human characteristics are given to something nonhuman

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

Device: an implied comparison without like or as

"Lolita" and "Pale Fire"

"A Dictionary of the English Language" (1755)

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

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

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

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

"Howl"

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

/ - Consisting of or featuring trochees.

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

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

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

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

"Common Sense" pamphlet advocating for independence from Great Britain

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

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

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

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

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

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

Device: Descriptive effects rather than literal meaning

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

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

"A Tale of a Tub"(1704)

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

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

"Rip van Winkle" and "Sleep Hollow"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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