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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






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






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






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






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






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






7. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






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






9. 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.






10. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






11. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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






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






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






15. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






16. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






17. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






23. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






24. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






25. The organizational form of a literary work.






26. What a story or play is about.






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






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






29. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






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






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






32. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






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






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






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






36. A poem that tells a story.






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






38. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






39. 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.






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






41. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






42. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






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






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






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






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






47. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






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






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






50. 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.