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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A short saying with a moral.






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






3. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






9. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






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






11. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






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






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






14. A strong pause within a line.






15. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






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






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






18. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






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






20. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






21. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






22. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






23. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






24. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






25. Broken down acts.






26. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






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






28. 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.






29. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






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


31. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






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






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






34. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






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






36. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






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






38. A four line stanza in a poem.






39. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






47. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






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






49. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






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