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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Epigram
Foreshadowing
Dramatic Irony
Understatement
2. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Rhyme
Act
Epiphany
Protagonist
3. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Assonance
Tone
Audience
Situational Irony
4. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Foot
Syntax
Aubade
1st Person
5. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Alliteration
Paradox
Aphorism
Villanelle
6. The organizational form of a literary work.
Structure
Metonymy
Elegy
Exposition
7. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Foreshadowing
Allusion
Allegory
Convention
8. A strong pause within a line.
Mood
Caesura
Rising Action
Couplet
9. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Spondee
Oxymoron
Paradox
Apostrophe
10. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Aside
Cliche
Motif
Connotation
11. The selection of words in a literary work.
Diction
Stereotype
Caesura
Symbolism
12. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Foil
Situational Irony
External Conflict
Anapest
13. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Synecdoche
Aphorism
Parallelism
External Conflict
14. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Denotation
Paradox
Closed Form
Oxymoron
15. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Imagery
Stanza
Dactyl
Subplot
16. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Ballad
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Repetition
17. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Irony
Caesura
Legend
Syntax
18. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Motif
Nonfiction
Aside
Denouement
19. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Dramatic Irony
Dialogue
Anapest
Characterization
20. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Comic Relief
Situational Irony
Climax
Analogy
21. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Rising Action
Closed Form
Onomatopoeia
Characterization
22. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Understatement
Sestet
Assonance
Aubade
23. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Motif
Blank Verse
Myth
Narrator
24. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Foot
Exposition
Verbal Irony
Spondee
25. A four line stanza in a poem.
External Conflict
Elegy
Quatrain
Lyric Poem
26. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Stereotype
Satire
Symbolism
Anapest
27. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Spondee
Narrator
Personification
Denotation
28. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Comic Relief
Motif
Parody
Nonfiction
29. Broken down acts.
Cliche
Subject
Scenes
Ballad
30. 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.
Repetition
Foil
Voice
Quatrain
31. 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.
Couplet
Falling Action
Symbolism
Legend
32. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Folklore
Epiphany
Personification
Theme
33. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Comic Relief
Characterization
Anapest
Villanelle
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.
Synecdoche
Voice
Aside
Dactyl
35. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Alliteration
Mood
Recognition
Foreshadowing
36. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Conflict
Flashback
Sestet
Meter
37. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Persona
Antagonist
Understatement
Syntax
38. What a story or play is about.
Parody
Subject
Closed Form
Imagery
39. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Analogy
Catharsis
Foreshadowing
Conflict
40. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Verbal Irony
Octave
Cliche
Anapest
41. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Parallelism
Understatement
Pyrrhic
Enjambment
42. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Style
Blank Verse
Satire
Alliteration
43. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Analogy
Free Verse
Rising Action
3rd Person (Limited)
44. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Free Verse
Elegy
Mood
Symbol
45. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Irony
Closed Form
Stanza
Satire
46. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Apostrophe
Foot
Symbol
Ballad
47. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Subject
Paradox
Parallelism
Dialect
48. 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.
Flashback
Satire
Aside
Onomatopoeia
49. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Enjambment
Foreshadowing
Understatement
Pyrrhic
50. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Rising Action
Style
Analogy
Lyric Poem