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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Sestet
Octave
Convention
Antagonist
2. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Trochee
Literal Language
Symbolism
Stanza
3. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Symbol
Blank Verse
3rd Person (Limited)
Connotation
4. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Audience
Lyric Poem
Characterization
Scenes
5. 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.
Free Verse
Parody
Epiphany
3rd Person (Omniscient)
6. A character struggles against some outside force.
Character
Allegory
External Conflict
1st Person
7. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Structure
Tone
Comic Relief
Internal Conflict
8. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Rhyme
Sestina
Synecdoche
Blank Verse
9. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Convention
Conceit
Stanza
Sonnet
10. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Reversal
Allegory
Syntax
Dactyl
11. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Solioquy
Catharsis
Stereotype
Falling Meter
12. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Blank Verse
Theme
Voice
Onomatopoeia
13. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Subplot
Denotation
Satire
Internal Conflict
14. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Dactyl
Epigram
Dramatic Irony
Comic Relief
15. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Reversal
Cliche
Spondee
Dialect
16. 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
Villanelle
Ode
Subplot
17. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Satire
Aubade
Theme
Situational Irony
18. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Author's Purpose
Comic Relief
Syntax
Anapest
19. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Parallelism
Apostrophe
Spondee
Pyrrhic
20. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Trochee
Aphorism
Conceit
Simile
21. The main character of a literary work.
Protagonist
Syntax
Dramatic Irony
Mood
22. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Myth
Falling Action
Climax
Blank Verse
23. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Complication
Spondee
Epic
Oxymoron
24. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Parable
Dramatic Irony
Plot
3rd Person (Limited)
25. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Oxymoron
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Connotation
Blank Verse
26. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Parallelism
Anapest
Convention
Denotation
27. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Caesura
Epic
Cliche
Enjambment
28. What a story or play is about.
Act
Subject
Imagery
Complication
29. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Antagonist
Epiphany
Denotation
Falling Meter
30. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Reversal
Literal Language
Dialect
Elision
31. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Falling Action
Hyperbole
3rd Person (Limited)
Syntax
32. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Rising Action
Symbolism
Metaphor
Complication
33. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Metonymy
Setting
Stereotype
Dialect
34. A poem that tells a story.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Diction
Spondee
Narrative Poem
35. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Legend
Solioquy
Figurative Language
Alliteration
36. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Figurative Language
Hyperbole
Apostrophe
Metonymy
37. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Trochee
Paradox
Motif
Couplet
38. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Analogy
Connotation
Blank Verse
Narrator
39. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Solioquy
1st Person
Symbol
Character
40. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Point of View
Aubade
Recognition
Parallelism
41. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Irony
Parable
Plot
Folklore
42. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Cliche
Stanza
Denotation
Symbolism
43. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Denotation
Synecdoche
Onomatopoeia
Antagonist
44. A short saying with a moral.
Aphorism
Aubade
Irony
Anapest
45. A strong pause within a line.
Foil
Caesura
Conflict
Lyric Poem
46. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Narrative Poem
3rd Person (Limited)
Catharsis
Complication
47. The time and place of a story or play.
Tercet
Rising Action
Setting
Denotation
48. A four line stanza in a poem.
Quatrain
Suspense
Synecdoche
Metaphor
49. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Antagonist
Point of View
Epiphany
Image
50. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Simile
Flashback
Verbal Irony
Iamb