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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






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






3. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






4. A character struggles against some outside force.






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






6. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






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






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






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






10. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






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






12. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






13. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






14. A short saying with a moral.






15. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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






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






18. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






19. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






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






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






28. Broken down acts.






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






30. The dictionary meaning of a word.






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






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






33. A four line stanza in a poem.






34. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






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






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






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






38. A strong pause within a line.






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






40. A three-line stanza.






41. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






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






43. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






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