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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Internal Conflict
Couplet
Folklore
Metonymy
2. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Verbal Irony
Denouement
Imagery
Falling Action
3. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Character
Anapest
Analogy
Plot
4. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Point of View
Author's Purpose
Theme
Stanza
5. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Myth
Spondee
Narrative Poem
Alliteration
6. What a story or play is about.
Subject
Simile
Conflict
Villanelle
7. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Parody
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Internal Conflict
Aphorism
8. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Stanza
Foot
Couplet
Villanelle
9. The time and place of a story or play.
Foreshadowing
Foil
Persona
Setting
10. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Satire
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Fiction
11. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
3rd Person (Limited)
Denouement
Situational Irony
Climax
12. The main character of a literary work.
Comic Relief
Rhyme
Protagonist
Denouement
13. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Allegory
Sonnet
Sestet
Octave
14. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Simile
Metonymy
Couplet
Enjambment
15. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Dialogue
Sestet
Symbolism
Diction
16. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Oxymoron
Act
Legend
Flashback
17. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Onomatopoeia
Stanza
Narrative Poem
Reversal
18. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Persona
Climax
Rhyme
Convention
19. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Flashback
Plot
Elision
Allegory
20. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Allegory
Epigram
Verbal Irony
Oxymoron
21. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Verbal Irony
Figurative Language
Mood
1st Person
22. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Allegory
Symbol
Conflict
Symbolism
23. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Cliche
Simile
Narrative Poem
Denotation
24. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Aphorism
Connotation
Elegy
Cliche
25. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Epiphany
Folklore
Recognition
Sestet
26. A four line stanza in a poem.
Recognition
Quatrain
Sestet
Subplot
27. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Author's Purpose
Rhyme
Symbol
Cliche
28. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Reversal
Sestina
Allegory
Sestet
29. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Myth
Falling Meter
Meter
Dialogue
30. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Plot
Pyrrhic
Foreshadowing
31. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Hyperbole
Dialogue
Assonance
Catharsis
32. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Aubade
Anapest
Symbolism
Sonnet
33. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Cliche
Dialect
Sestina
Recognition
34. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
3rd Person (Limited)
Oxymoron
Aside
Epigram
35. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Characterization
Solioquy
Tercet
Metaphor
36. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Foot
Symbolism
Trochee
Verbal Irony
37. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Iamb
Tone
Blank Verse
3rd Person (Omniscient)
38. A character struggles against some outside force.
Ballad
Symbol
External Conflict
Connotation
39. The selection of words in a literary work.
Characterization
Couplet
Narrative Poem
Diction
40. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Couplet
Metonymy
Subject
Dactyl
41. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Villanelle
Dialogue
Flashback
Enjambment
42. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Villanelle
Conceit
Author's Purpose
Symbol
43. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Protagonist
Imagery
Aside
Convention
44. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Synecdoche
Comic Relief
Audience
Solioquy
45. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Onomatopoeia
Scenes
Characterization
Analogy
46. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Trochee
Point of View
Dactyl
47. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Sonnet
Dramatic Irony
Meter
Narrator
48. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Dramatic Irony
Enjambment
Comic Relief
Complication
49. A poem that tells a story.
Narrative Poem
3rd Person (Limited)
Stanza
Simile
50. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Stereotype
Connotation
Anapest
Dramatic Irony