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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






2. A short saying with a moral.






3. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






8. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






9. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






10. A four line stanza in a poem.






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






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






13. The person who 'tells' the story.






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






15. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






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






17. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






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






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






20. A three-line stanza.






21. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






22. A poem that tells a story.






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






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






25. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






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






27. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






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






29. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






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






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






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






33. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






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






35. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






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






37. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






38. The selection of words in a literary work.






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






40. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






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






42. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






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






44. The main character of a literary work.






45. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






46. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






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






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






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






50. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.