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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






2. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






3. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






4. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






5. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






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






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






8. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






9. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






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






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






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






13. A strong pause within a line.






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






15. 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.






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






17. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






18. 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.






19. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






20. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






21. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






22. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






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






24. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






25. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






26. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






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






28. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






29. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






30. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






31. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






32. 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.






33. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






34. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






35. A four line stanza in a poem.






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






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






38. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






39. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






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






41. What a story or play is about.






42. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






43. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






44. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






45. Broken down acts.






46. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






47. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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48. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






49. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






50. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.