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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Symbol
Rhythm
Dialogue
Falling Meter
2. Broken down acts.
Spondee
Subject
Scenes
Fiction
3. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Falling Meter
Villanelle
Protagonist
Irony
4. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Allusion
Subject
Quatrain
Foil
5. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Point of View
Caesura
Comic Relief
Symbolism
6. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Parallelism
Closed Form
Epic
Villanelle
7. A strong pause within a line.
Caesura
Meter
Irony
Theme
8. A character struggles against some outside force.
Understatement
External Conflict
Nonfiction
Diction
9. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Cliche
External Conflict
Meter
Tone
10. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Stereotype
Climax
Tone
Symbolism
11. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Blank Verse
Allegory
Elegy
3rd Person (Limited)
12. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Epic
3rd Person (Limited)
Mood
Sestina
13. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Foreshadowing
Pyrrhic
Denotation
Irony
14. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Dialect
Recognition
Rhythm
Synecdoche
15. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Satire
Connotation
Irony
16. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Fiction
Enjambment
Blank Verse
Character
17. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Spondee
Sestina
Folklore
Villanelle
18. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Rhythm
Convention
Anapest
Dramatic Irony
19. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Tone
Iamb
Image
Aside
20. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Convention
Situational Irony
Assonance
Diction
21. A three-line stanza.
Tercet
Mood
3rd Person (Limited)
Caesura
22. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
1st Person
External Conflict
Lyric Poem
Climax
23. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Synecdoche
Dialogue
Catharsis
Allegory
24. The time and place of a story or play.
Elision
Antagonist
Setting
Repetition
25. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Satire
1st Person
Conflict
Antagonist
26. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Narrative Poem
Denotation
Spondee
Pyrrhic
27. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Subject
Theme
Legend
Stereotype
28. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Allusion
Scenes
Syntax
Structure
29. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Catharsis
Repetition
Pyrrhic
Conceit
30. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Recognition
Lyric Poem
Symbolism
Analogy
31. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Denouement
Characterization
Parallelism
Closed Form
32. 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.
Aphorism
Convention
Exposition
Sestina
33. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Apostrophe
Parallelism
Simile
Satire
34. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Symbol
Ode
Syntax
Sestina
35. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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36. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Tercet
Point of View
Oxymoron
Motif
37. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Allegory
Flashback
Alliteration
Meter
38. 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
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Parody
Pyrrhic
39. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Ode
Subplot
Foil
Aphorism
40. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Repetition
Epiphany
Theme
Flashback
41. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Stanza
Situational Irony
Symbolism
Simile
42. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Analogy
Falling Action
Point of View
Hyperbole
43. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Suspense
Free Verse
Enjambment
Allegory
44. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Theme
Ballad
Cliche
Comic Relief
45. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Understatement
Setting
Scenes
Falling Action
46. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Epigram
Author's Purpose
Apostrophe
Literal Language
47. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Image
Couplet
Myth
Allusion
48. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Trochee
Dialogue
Allusion
Oxymoron
49. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Recognition
Characterization
Aphorism
Enjambment
50. The main character of a literary work.
Protagonist
Epiphany
Epic
Style