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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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1. The dictionary meaning of a word.






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






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






4. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






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






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






7. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






8. The person who 'tells' the story.






9. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






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






14. The selection of words in a literary work.






15. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






16. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






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






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






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






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






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






22. A strong pause within a line.






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






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






25. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






26. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






27. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






28. A character struggles against some outside force.






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






30. A short saying with a moral.






31. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






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






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






34. A poem that tells a story.






35. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






36. A three-line stanza.






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






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






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






40. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






49. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






50. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.