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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Ode
Onomatopoeia
Cliche
Situational Irony
2. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Dialogue
Image
Dactyl
Imagery
3. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Allegory
Ballad
Elegy
Falling Meter
4. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Aphorism
Paradox
Act
Quatrain
5. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Image
Character
Elegy
Aubade
6. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Rhythm
Scenes
Anapest
Cliche
7. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Synecdoche
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Literal Language
Aubade
8. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Antagonist
Dialogue
Hyperbole
Symbolism
9. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Catharsis
3rd Person (Limited)
Symbol
Persona
10. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Sestet
Metaphor
Parody
Folklore
11. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Protagonist
Catharsis
Dialect
Ballad
12. A character struggles against some outside force.
Reversal
Suspense
External Conflict
Rhythm
13. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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14. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Repetition
Parody
Sestina
Rising Action
15. 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.
Sonnet
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Voice
Scenes
16. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Allegory
Spondee
Motif
Meter
17. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Situational Irony
Subplot
Epic
Free Verse
18. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Parallelism
Sestina
Theme
Rhyme
19. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Metonymy
Apostrophe
Plot
Stereotype
20. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Conceit
Catharsis
Audience
Ode
21. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Complication
Falling Action
Simile
Conceit
22. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Hyperbole
Diction
Parody
Rising Action
23. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Plot
Falling Action
Foreshadowing
Iamb
24. The time and place of a story or play.
Image
Repetition
Dialect
Setting
25. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Exposition
Mood
Conflict
Stereotype
26. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Spondee
Allegory
Pyrrhic
Legend
27. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Trochee
Exposition
Aside
Author's Purpose
28. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Folklore
Tone
Octave
Ode
29. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Plot
Denotation
Quatrain
Internal Conflict
30. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Tone
Imagery
Persona
Figurative Language
31. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Reversal
Foot
Quatrain
Climax
32. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Dramatic Irony
Style
Nonfiction
Structure
33. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Comic Relief
Parable
Image
Denotation
34. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Dialect
Recognition
Reversal
Spondee
35. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Anapest
Epic
Epigram
Allusion
36. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
3rd Person (Limited)
Aphorism
Point of View
Understatement
37. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Exposition
Catharsis
Lyric Poem
Onomatopoeia
38. What a story or play is about.
Subject
Characterization
Free Verse
Protagonist
39. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Ode
Internal Conflict
Nonfiction
Author's Purpose
40. Broken down acts.
Falling Action
Falling Meter
Scenes
Fiction
41. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Myth
Stanza
Setting
Subplot
42. 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.
Quatrain
Aubade
Sestina
Stanza
43. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Act
Convention
Trochee
Character
44. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Closed Form
Aubade
Nonfiction
Protagonist
45. 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.
Hyperbole
Aside
Analogy
Allegory
46. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Closed Form
Diction
Theme
Antagonist
47. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Pyrrhic
Conflict
Point of View
Motif
48. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Narrative Poem
Meter
Caesura
Literal Language
49. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Sestet
Free Verse
1st Person
Symbolism
50. The person who 'tells' the story.
Narrator
Imagery
Elision
Parody