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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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






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






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






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






5. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






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






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






8. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






9. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






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






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






12. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






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






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






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






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






17. What a story or play is about.






18. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






19. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






20. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






21. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






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






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






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






25. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






26. The selection of words in a literary work.






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






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






35. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






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






37. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






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






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






40. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






41. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






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






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






44. A strong pause within a line.






45. A three-line stanza.






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






47. 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.






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






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