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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






2. 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.






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






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






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






6. What a story or play is about.






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






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






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






10. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






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






12. The main character of a literary work.






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






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






15. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






16. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






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






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






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






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






21. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






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






23. The dictionary meaning of a word.






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






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






26. A four line stanza in a poem.






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






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






29. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






30. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






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






32. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






38. A character struggles against some outside force.






39. The selection of words in a literary work.






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






45. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






46. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






47. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






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






49. A poem that tells a story.






50. The emotion or feeling a word creates.