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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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






2. A four line stanza in a poem.






3. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






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






5. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






6. The main character of a literary work.






7. The selection of words in a literary work.






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






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






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






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






12. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






13. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






14. 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.






15. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






16. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






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






18. What a story or play is about.






19. The dictionary meaning of a word.






20. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






28. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






29. 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.






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






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






32. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






33. 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.






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






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






36. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






37. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






38. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






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






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






41. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






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






43. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






44. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






45. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






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






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






48. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






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






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