English CSET Subtest I - Part 1

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

"A Tale of a Tub"(1704)

"Poor Richard's Almanac " and " Autobiography "

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

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

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

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

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

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

Device: human characteristics are given to something nonhuman

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

Device: Giving human characteristic to nonhuman things

Long work prose fiction, often realistic and addresses societal concerns

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

Device: Descriptive effects rather than literal meaning

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

Device: Using descriptive language to enlist the senses

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

Latin "Metamorphoses" and "Ares Amatora"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

/ - Consisting of or featuring trochees.

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

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

"Rip van Winkle" and "Sleep Hollow"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Device: Words that imitate sound

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

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

Homer, Sophocles, Aesop

Involves readability: sentence length, vocabulary, syntax

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

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

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

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

"A Dictionary of the English Language" (1755)

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

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

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

Device: an implied comparison without like or as

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

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

"Brave New World" (1932)

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

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

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

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

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

The future is assumed

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Common Sense" pamphlet advocating for independence from Great Britain

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

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

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

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

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

"Howl"

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

14 line poem originated in Italy with Petrarch

"Lolita" and "Pale Fire"

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

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

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

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

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

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

Device: Inoffensive/ indirect speech

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Moby Dick"