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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.
Theme
Connotation
Audience
Style
2. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Dramatic Irony
Meter
Symbol
Stereotype
3. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Conceit
Author's Purpose
Onomatopoeia
Subplot
4. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Author's Purpose
Denotation
Comic Relief
Hyperbole
5. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Syntax
Stanza
Author's Purpose
Climax
6. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Hyperbole
Character
Metonymy
Dialogue
7. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Stanza
Analogy
Symbolism
Characterization
8. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Recognition
Symbol
Denouement
Cliche
9. The main character of a literary work.
External Conflict
Convention
Couplet
Protagonist
10. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Parody
Figurative Language
Spondee
Pyrrhic
11. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Blank Verse
Epigram
Foil
Motif
12. The organizational form of a literary work.
Hyperbole
Structure
Lyric Poem
Synecdoche
13. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Climax
Enjambment
Catharsis
Cliche
14. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Foreshadowing
Style
Narrator
Dactyl
15. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Act
Denouement
Spondee
Blank Verse
16. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Epiphany
Ballad
Alliteration
Epigram
17. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Situational Irony
Assonance
Villanelle
18. A four line stanza in a poem.
Quatrain
Elegy
Convention
Cliche
19. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Rhyme
Literal Language
Reversal
Theme
20. 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.
Voice
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Suspense
Setting
21. 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.
Convention
Fiction
Plot
Repetition
22. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Legend
Oxymoron
Irony
Quatrain
23. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Aside
Sonnet
Oxymoron
Plot
24. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Cliche
Metonymy
Blank Verse
Understatement
25. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Symbol
Oxymoron
Free Verse
Villanelle
26. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Dialogue
Voice
Reversal
1st Person
27. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Narrative Poem
Dactyl
Aubade
Sonnet
28. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Voice
Falling Meter
Subplot
Elegy
29. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Folklore
Convention
Persona
Dialogue
30. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Anapest
Act
Legend
Cliche
31. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Setting
Metaphor
Verbal Irony
Antagonist
32. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Epiphany
Aubade
Iamb
Flashback
33. A short saying with a moral.
Scenes
Aphorism
Catharsis
Dactyl
34. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Dactyl
Elision
Reversal
Dramatic Irony
35. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Octave
Analogy
Ode
Assonance
36. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Metonymy
Imagery
Parable
Elegy
37. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Protagonist
Foot
Denouement
Motif
38. What a story or play is about.
Dactyl
Free Verse
Subject
Style
39. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Satire
Solioquy
3rd Person (Limited)
Dramatic Irony
40. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Analogy
Point of View
Exposition
External Conflict
41. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Connotation
Closed Form
Foot
Character
42. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Aside
Villanelle
Closed Form
Allegory
43. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Octave
Plot
3rd Person (Limited)
Dramatic Irony
44. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Subplot
Tone
Understatement
Irony
45. 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.
Suspense
Flashback
Literal Language
Narrator
46. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Sestet
Imagery
Narrator
Metaphor
47. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
3rd Person (Limited)
Foil
Trochee
Dialect
48. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Mood
Diction
Folklore
Climax
49. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Solioquy
Plot
Image
Antagonist
50. A three-line stanza.
Persona
Theme
Narrative Poem
Tercet