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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






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






3. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






4. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






5. 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.






6. A character struggles against some outside force.






7. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






8. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






9. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






10. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






11. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






12. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






13. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






14. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






15. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






16. 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.






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






18. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






19. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






20. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






21. The main character of a literary work.






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






23. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






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






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






26. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






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






28. What a story or play is about.






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






30. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






31. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






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






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






34. A poem that tells a story.






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






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






37. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






38. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






39. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






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






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






42. The dictionary meaning of a word.






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






44. A short saying with a moral.






45. A strong pause within a line.






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






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






48. A four line stanza in a poem.






49. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






50. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.