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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. A character struggles against some outside force.






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






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






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






5. A poem that tells a story.






6. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






7. 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.






8. A strong pause within a line.






9. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. Broken down acts.






16. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






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






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






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






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






21. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






22. 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.






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






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






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






26. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






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






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






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






30. A three-line stanza.






31. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






32. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






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






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






35. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






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






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






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






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






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






41. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






42. The organizational form of a literary work.






43. The selection of words in a literary work.






44. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






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






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






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






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






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






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