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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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






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






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






4. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






5. A strong pause within a line.






6. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






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






8. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






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






20. A four line stanza in a poem.






21. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






22. 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.






23. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






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






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






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






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






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






29. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






30. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






31. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






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






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






34. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






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






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






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






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






39. A poem that tells a story.






40. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






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






42. The main character of a literary work.






43. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






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






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






46. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






47. 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.






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






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






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