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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 brief witty poem - often satirical.






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






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






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






5. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






14. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






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






16. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






17. 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.






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






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






20. The person who 'tells' the story.






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






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






23. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






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






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






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






27. A strong pause within a line.






28. 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.






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






30. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






31. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






37. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






38. Broken down acts.






39. The dictionary meaning of a word.






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






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






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






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






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






45. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






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






47. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






48. A character struggles against some outside force.






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






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