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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 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.






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






3. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






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






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






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






7. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






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






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






10. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. What a story or play is about.






17. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






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






19. The person who 'tells' the story.






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






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






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






23. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






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






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






26. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






27. A character struggles against some outside force.






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






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






30. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






31. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






32. 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.






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






34. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






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






36. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






37. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






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






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






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






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






42. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






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






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






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






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






47. The main character of a literary work.






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






49. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






50. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.