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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. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






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






3. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






4. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






5. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






6. A short saying with a moral.






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






8. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






9. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






10. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






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






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






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






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






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






16. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






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






18. The selection of words in a literary work.






19. The organizational form of a literary work.






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






26. A four line stanza in a poem.






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






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






29. 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.






30. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






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






32. A poem that tells a story.






33. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






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






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






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






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






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






39. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






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






41. A three-line stanza.






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






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






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






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






46. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






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

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






49. 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.






50. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.