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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






2. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






3. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






4. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






5. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






6. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






7. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






8. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






9. The main character of a literary work.






10. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






11. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






12. The organizational form of a literary work.






13. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






14. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






15. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






16. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






17. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






18. A four line stanza in a poem.






19. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






20. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






21. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






22. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






23. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






24. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






25. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






26. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






27. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






28. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






29. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






30. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






31. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






32. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






33. A short saying with a moral.






34. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






35. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






36. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






37. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






38. What a story or play is about.






39. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






40. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






41. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






42. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






43. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






44. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






45. 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.






46. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






47. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






48. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






49. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






50. A three-line stanza.