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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Characterization
Image
Foot
Symbol
2. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Oxymoron
Octave
Trochee
Audience
3. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Enjambment
Oxymoron
Allusion
Tercet
4. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Myth
Point of View
Octave
Voice
5. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Anapest
Apostrophe
Rising Action
Protagonist
6. A poem that tells a story.
Legend
Voice
Narrative Poem
Paradox
7. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Verbal Irony
Epigram
Simile
Aubade
8. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Exposition
Epiphany
Repetition
Style
9. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Symbol
Protagonist
Climax
Rising Action
10. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Enjambment
Audience
Flashback
Alliteration
11. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Free Verse
Onomatopoeia
1st Person
Tercet
12. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Ode
Foot
Dialect
Voice
13. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Denotation
Personification
Recognition
Meter
14. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Octave
Myth
Fiction
Paradox
15. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Sestet
Apostrophe
Ballad
Characterization
16. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Conflict
Hyperbole
Paradox
Parody
17. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Synecdoche
Assonance
Convention
Reversal
18. 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.
Aphorism
Closed Form
Fiction
Voice
19. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Motif
Meter
Alliteration
Exposition
20. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Dialogue
Suspense
Trochee
Villanelle
21. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Act
Blank Verse
Dialogue
Cliche
22. 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.
Parable
Meter
Diction
Falling Action
23. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Quatrain
Imagery
Exposition
Situational Irony
24. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Dialect
Caesura
Epic
Apostrophe
25. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Cliche
Oxymoron
Understatement
Sonnet
26. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Imagery
Catharsis
Alliteration
Rhythm
27. 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.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Subject
Plot
Assonance
28. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Legend
Lyric Poem
Tone
Structure
29. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Parable
Quatrain
Imagery
Subplot
30. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Narrator
Alliteration
Syntax
Persona
31. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Spondee
Assonance
Tercet
Scenes
32. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Flashback
Sonnet
Rhyme
Reversal
33. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Satire
Dactyl
Point of View
Metonymy
34. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Sonnet
Complication
Exposition
Figurative Language
35. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Literal Language
Motif
Aubade
Mood
36. A strong pause within a line.
Figurative Language
Caesura
Mood
Stereotype
37. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Antagonist
Metaphor
Understatement
Author's Purpose
38. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Climax
Imagery
Symbol
Author's Purpose
39. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Dramatic Irony
Alliteration
Theme
Falling Meter
40. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Symbol
Irony
Lyric Poem
Aphorism
41. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Symbol
Octave
Literal Language
Tercet
42. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Lyric Poem
Dactyl
Elegy
Plot
43. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Quatrain
Scenes
Plot
Sonnet
44. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Anapest
Iamb
Complication
Point of View
45. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Image
Scenes
Paradox
Satire
46. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
1st Person
Meter
Onomatopoeia
Conceit
47. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Ballad
Reversal
Oxymoron
Mood
48. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Figurative Language
Rising Action
Theme
Elision
49. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Motif
Conceit
Onomatopoeia
Aside
50. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Setting
Subject
Complication
Metonymy