CSET SUBTEST 1
# Term Definition
1 Sonnet Originated in Italy 14 lines
2 James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ex of
Bilunsgroman
3 Charles Dickens David Copperfield Ex of Bilunsgroman
4 Bilunsgroman Novel that describes the development of a
person from childhood to maturity
5 Hyperbole Exaggerated statement not meant to be taken
literally
6 Extended Metaphor Comparison between two unlike things,
continued throughout a poem, paragraph, lines
etc.
7 African Writers Class between traditional African culture vs.
encroaching western civilization
8 Pastoral Genre of poetry depicting rural life or life of a
shepherd in an idealized form.
9 Walt Whitman Long Lines and repetitive cadences of biblical
verses
10 Allegory Fictional Narrative that contains a second
symbolic meaning, in addition to it's overt story
Animal Farm/The Divine Comedy/The Lion the
Witch and the Wardrobe
11 Neoclassical (Age of Employs satire and ridicule in heroic couplets
Enlightenment) that are witty and intellectual. A Tale of
Tub/Gulliver's Travels/Robinson Crusoe
12 Postcolonial Critics Examine western colonialism and
imperialism and show how this literature helped
further ideas of racial and cultural justice
13 Shakespeare's the Tempest Caliban represents a culture oppressed by
Europeans, represented by Prospero
# Term Definition
1 Sonnet Originated in Italy 14 lines
2 James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ex of
Bilunsgroman
3 Charles Dickens David Copperfield Ex of Bilunsgroman
4 Bilunsgroman Novel that describes the development of a
person from childhood to maturity
5 Hyperbole Exaggerated statement not meant to be taken
literally
6 Extended Metaphor Comparison between two unlike things,
continued throughout a poem, paragraph, lines
etc.
7 African Writers Class between traditional African culture vs.
encroaching western civilization
8 Pastoral Genre of poetry depicting rural life or life of a
shepherd in an idealized form.
9 Walt Whitman Long Lines and repetitive cadences of biblical
verses
10 Allegory Fictional Narrative that contains a second
symbolic meaning, in addition to it's overt story
Animal Farm/The Divine Comedy/The Lion the
Witch and the Wardrobe
11 Neoclassical (Age of Employs satire and ridicule in heroic couplets
Enlightenment) that are witty and intellectual. A Tale of
Tub/Gulliver's Travels/Robinson Crusoe
12 Postcolonial Critics Examine western colonialism and
imperialism and show how this literature helped
further ideas of racial and cultural justice
13 Shakespeare's the Tempest Caliban represents a culture oppressed by
Europeans, represented by Prospero
