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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






2. 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.






3. The person who 'tells' the story.






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






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






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






7. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






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






9. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






10. 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.






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






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






13. What a story or play is about.






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






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






16. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






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






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






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






20. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






21. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






22. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






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






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






25. 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.






26. A character struggles against some outside force.






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






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






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






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






31. A strong pause within a line.






32. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






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






34. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






35. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






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






37. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






38. A four line stanza in a poem.






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






40. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






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






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

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43. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






44. 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.






45. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






46. Broken down acts.






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






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






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






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