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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






2. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






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






4. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






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






6. The organizational form of a literary work.






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






8. A strong pause within a line.






9. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






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






11. The selection of words in a literary work.






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






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






14. The dictionary meaning of a word.






15. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






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






17. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






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






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






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






21. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






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






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






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






25. A four line stanza in a poem.






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






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






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






29. Broken down acts.






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






33. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






34. 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.






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






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






37. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






38. What a story or play is about.






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






40. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






41. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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.






49. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






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