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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, 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.






2. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






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






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






5. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






6. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






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






8. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






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






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






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






12. A character struggles against some outside force.






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.






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.






16. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






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






18. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






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






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






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






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






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






24. The time and place of a story or play.






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






26. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






27. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






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






29. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






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






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






32. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






33. The dictionary meaning of a word.






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






35. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






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






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






38. What a story or play is about.






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






40. Broken down acts.






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






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.






43. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






44. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






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.






46. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






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






48. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






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






50. The person who 'tells' the story.