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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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






2. The selection of words in a literary work.






3. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






4. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






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






6. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






7. The person who 'tells' the story.






8. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






9. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






10. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






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






12. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






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






14. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






15. The time and place of a story or play.






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






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






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

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19. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






20. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






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






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






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






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






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






26. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






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






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






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






30. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






31. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






32. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






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






34. A short saying with a moral.






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






36. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






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






38. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






39. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






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






41. 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.






42. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






43. What a story or play is about.






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






45. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






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






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






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






49. A four line stanza in a poem.






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