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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 figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Parody
Hyperbole
Act
Assonance
2. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Point of View
Aphorism
Connotation
Understatement
3. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
1st Person
Folklore
Persona
Antagonist
4. 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
Act
Metonymy
Protagonist
5. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Elision
Alliteration
Exposition
Parable
6. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Diction
Solioquy
Parody
Comic Relief
7. A four line stanza in a poem.
Alliteration
Couplet
Quatrain
Climax
8. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Alliteration
Personification
Sonnet
Diction
9. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Parallelism
Denouement
Repetition
Convention
10. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Voice
Nonfiction
Sestet
Persona
11. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Epic
Stanza
Conflict
Foot
12. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Meter
Point of View
Aphorism
Characterization
13. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Enjambment
Onomatopoeia
Solioquy
Metaphor
14. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Allegory
Epic
Couplet
Parable
15. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Parody
Free Verse
Iamb
Lyric Poem
16. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Act
Foot
Protagonist
Dialect
17. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Dialogue
Symbolism
Literal Language
Synecdoche
18. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Assonance
Dramatic Irony
Epigram
Persona
19. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Ballad
Assonance
Exposition
Myth
20. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Subplot
Mood
Foreshadowing
Dialogue
21. 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.
Suspense
Conflict
Voice
Myth
22. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Image
Elegy
Legend
Quatrain
23. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Enjambment
Internal Conflict
Protagonist
Myth
24. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Situational Irony
Lyric Poem
Catharsis
Hyperbole
25. 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.
Plot
Protagonist
Ode
Falling Action
26. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Falling Meter
Denouement
Symbolism
Analogy
27. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Dramatic Irony
Dialect
Author's Purpose
Hyperbole
28. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Sestina
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Point of View
29. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Foil
Symbol
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Recognition
30. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Dialogue
Verbal Irony
Paradox
Aside
31. The person who 'tells' the story.
Theme
Narrator
Rhythm
Couplet
32. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Elision
Falling Action
Blank Verse
Couplet
33. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Dialect
Ballad
Conflict
Diction
34. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Allegory
Act
Octave
Nonfiction
35. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Antagonist
Closed Form
Character
Verbal Irony
36. A three-line stanza.
Tercet
Subject
Structure
Fiction
37. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Image
Conflict
Theme
Parody
38. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Free Verse
Sonnet
Enjambment
Complication
39. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Rising Action
Fiction
Climax
Denotation
40. What a story or play is about.
Epic
Sonnet
Subject
Connotation
41. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Subplot
Denotation
Closed Form
External Conflict
42. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Metonymy
Mood
Suspense
Symbol
43. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Parable
Plot
Epigram
Flashback
44. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Dramatic Irony
Irony
Dactyl
Iamb
45. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Elegy
Situational Irony
Conflict
Alliteration
46. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Spondee
Enjambment
External Conflict
Trochee
47. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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48. The selection of words in a literary work.
Diction
Oxymoron
Plot
Sonnet
49. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Falling Action
Flashback
Folklore
Spondee
50. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Fiction
Satire
Subplot
Dialogue