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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 emotion or feeling a word creates.
Meter
Aubade
Connotation
Stereotype
2. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Rhythm
Metaphor
Rhyme
Personification
3. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Theme
Villanelle
Rhyme
Parody
4. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Enjambment
Epigram
Rhyme
Subject
5. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Aubade
Comic Relief
Satire
Personification
6. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Anapest
Verbal Irony
Sestina
Solioquy
7. 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.
Narrator
Suspense
Conflict
Fiction
8. The time and place of a story or play.
Parody
Narrator
Setting
Simile
9. 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.
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Convention
Setting
10. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Rising Action
Spondee
Style
Myth
11. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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12. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Narrator
Irony
Comic Relief
Antagonist
13. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Style
Mood
Dramatic Irony
Trochee
14. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Rhyme
Protagonist
Parody
Voice
15. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Oxymoron
Parable
Recognition
Style
16. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Scenes
Author's Purpose
Iamb
Meter
17. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Literal Language
Tone
Denouement
Style
18. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Convention
Motif
Allegory
Figurative Language
19. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Tercet
Image
3rd Person (Limited)
Assonance
20. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Legend
Aubade
Satire
Myth
21. 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.
Elision
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Myth
Syntax
22. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Rhyme
Narrator
Sonnet
Subject
23. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Plot
Antagonist
Satire
Repetition
24. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Myth
Rising Action
Symbolism
25. The organizational form of a literary work.
Solioquy
Imagery
Structure
Narrator
26. What a story or play is about.
Subject
Rhythm
Parody
Falling Meter
27. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Climax
Legend
Narrative Poem
Diction
28. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Subplot
Octave
Tone
Iamb
29. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Assonance
Ballad
Catharsis
Parallelism
30. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Fiction
Audience
Simile
Mood
31. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Voice
Couplet
Villanelle
Dialogue
32. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Rising Action
Conceit
External Conflict
Myth
33. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Irony
Elision
Complication
Author's Purpose
34. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Rhyme
Synecdoche
Antagonist
Author's Purpose
35. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Symbol
Situational Irony
36. A poem that tells a story.
Folklore
Narrative Poem
Myth
Spondee
37. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Paradox
1st Person
Scenes
Dramatic Irony
38. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Apostrophe
Elision
Subject
Pyrrhic
39. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Synecdoche
Aside
Symbolism
Diction
40. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Subplot
Satire
Climax
Alliteration
41. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Assonance
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Rising Action
Free Verse
42. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Antagonist
Author's Purpose
Dactyl
Onomatopoeia
43. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Falling Meter
Irony
Iamb
Allusion
44. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Scenes
Syntax
Figurative Language
Falling Action
45. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Setting
Apostrophe
Dactyl
Cliche
46. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Folklore
Reversal
Myth
Scenes
47. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Tone
Denotation
Rising Action
Character
48. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Antagonist
Synecdoche
Simile
Metonymy
49. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Epigram
Sonnet
Internal Conflict
Structure
50. 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.
Irony
Falling Action
Imagery
Characterization