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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 run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Denotation
Enjambment
Falling Meter
Act
2. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Complication
Situational Irony
Scenes
Stereotype
3. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Parody
Motif
Persona
Synecdoche
4. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Villanelle
Oxymoron
Recognition
External Conflict
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.
Octave
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Closed Form
Quatrain
6. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Sestet
Hyperbole
Closed Form
Audience
7. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Folklore
Irony
Personification
Narrative Poem
8. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Octave
Legend
Subplot
Tone
9. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Fiction
Iamb
Climax
Octave
10. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Catharsis
Narrative Poem
External Conflict
Epic
11. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Caesura
Blank Verse
Elision
Onomatopoeia
12. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Solioquy
Iamb
Lyric Poem
Trochee
13. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Onomatopoeia
Synecdoche
Sonnet
Oxymoron
14. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Dactyl
Conflict
Parable
Stereotype
15. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Conflict
Rhythm
Aphorism
Complication
16. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Scenes
Enjambment
Climax
Denouement
17. What a story or play is about.
Subject
3rd Person (Limited)
Parable
Parody
18. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Aphorism
Anapest
Personification
Connotation
19. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Convention
Elegy
Diction
Simile
20. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Dactyl
Dialect
Denotation
Sestet
21. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Cliche
Suspense
Closed Form
Spondee
22. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Image
Aubade
Ode
Paradox
23. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Spondee
Parody
Octave
Analogy
24. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Paradox
Denouement
Ode
Flashback
25. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Dramatic Irony
Image
Recognition
1st Person
26. The selection of words in a literary work.
Protagonist
Diction
Catharsis
Denotation
27. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Mood
Alliteration
Situational Irony
Subplot
28. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Setting
Point of View
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Symbol
29. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Parallelism
Foreshadowing
Connotation
Conceit
30. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Apostrophe
Characterization
Assonance
Legend
31. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Falling Action
External Conflict
Persona
Meter
32. 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.
Foot
Aside
Blank Verse
Epiphany
33. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Closed Form
Foil
Flashback
Conflict
34. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Understatement
Denouement
Protagonist
Elegy
35. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Theme
Blank Verse
Fiction
Persona
36. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Foot
Mood
Personification
Blank Verse
37. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Octave
Antagonist
Image
Conflict
38. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Comic Relief
Parallelism
Connotation
Dialogue
39. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Sonnet
Persona
3rd Person (Limited)
40. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Pyrrhic
Stanza
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Solioquy
41. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Syntax
Antagonist
Epiphany
Assonance
42. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
External Conflict
Imagery
Subplot
Cliche
43. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Imagery
External Conflict
44. A strong pause within a line.
Audience
Caesura
Epiphany
Allegory
45. A three-line stanza.
Tercet
Syntax
Cliche
Reversal
46. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Diction
Subject
Metaphor
Epic
47. 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.
Allusion
Parallelism
Couplet
Convention
48. 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.
Voice
Denotation
Connotation
Flashback
49. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Blank Verse
Ode
Aubade
Falling Meter
50. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Comic Relief
Tercet
Denotation
1st Person