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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A short saying with a moral.
Apostrophe
Aphorism
Reversal
Voice
2. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Complication
Epigram
Rhyme
Structure
3. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Dramatic Irony
Couplet
Pyrrhic
Simile
4. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Allusion
Closed Form
Solioquy
Dialogue
5. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Simile
Dramatic Irony
Parable
Internal Conflict
6. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Spondee
Protagonist
Oxymoron
Climax
7. 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.
Structure
Voice
Ballad
External Conflict
8. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Closed Form
Epic
Epigram
Paradox
9. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Subject
Epigram
Iamb
Rising Action
10. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Connotation
External Conflict
Internal Conflict
11. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Oxymoron
Sestet
Hyperbole
Stanza
12. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Epic
Verbal Irony
Myth
Foil
13. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Characterization
Enjambment
Situational Irony
Lyric Poem
14. A strong pause within a line.
Symbol
Caesura
Simile
Closed Form
15. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Tone
Image
Rhythm
Characterization
16. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Protagonist
Subplot
Comic Relief
Point of View
17. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Metaphor
Recognition
Simile
Parable
18. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Simile
Diction
Verbal Irony
Mood
19. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Elision
Anapest
Foreshadowing
Stanza
20. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Blank Verse
Alliteration
Style
Pyrrhic
21. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Folklore
Blank Verse
Legend
Catharsis
22. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Anapest
Complication
Dialogue
3rd Person (Limited)
23. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Couplet
Elegy
Solioquy
Author's Purpose
24. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Simile
Act
Metaphor
Connotation
25. Broken down acts.
Mood
1st Person
Scenes
Fiction
26. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Suspense
External Conflict
Syntax
Epic
27. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Scenes
Cliche
Plot
Metaphor
28. 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.
Falling Action
Aphorism
Exposition
Repetition
29. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Symbolism
Exposition
Narrative Poem
Enjambment
30. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
31. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Suspense
Structure
Mood
Catharsis
32. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Satire
Complication
Enjambment
Syntax
33. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Foil
Parody
Rhyme
Tercet
34. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Apostrophe
Structure
Syntax
Reversal
35. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Audience
Act
Allusion
Personification
36. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Plot
Catharsis
Aubade
Sestet
37. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Plot
Couplet
Onomatopoeia
Allegory
38. A four line stanza in a poem.
Quatrain
Literal Language
Mood
External Conflict
39. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Rising Action
Climax
Parallelism
Myth
40. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Literal Language
Recognition
Flashback
Foot
41. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Tone
Style
Elision
Ballad
42. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Internal Conflict
Nonfiction
Solioquy
Act
43. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Legend
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Dialect
Onomatopoeia
44. 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.
Tone
Parallelism
Stanza
Sestet
45. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
1st Person
Reversal
Syntax
Suspense
46. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Protagonist
Image
Foot
Personification
47. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Foreshadowing
Rhyme
Tercet
Flashback
48. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Elision
Assonance
Oxymoron
Enjambment
49. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Scenes
Connotation
Author's Purpose
Closed Form
50. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Paradox
Literal Language
Lyric Poem
Verbal Irony