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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






2. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






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






10. Broken down acts.






11. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






12. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






13. A character struggles against some outside force.






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






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






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






17. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






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






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






20. 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.






21. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






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






23. The organizational form of a literary work.






24. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






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






26. 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.






27. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






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






29. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






30. A three-line stanza.






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






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






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






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






35. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






36. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






37. The main character of a literary work.






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






39. A strong pause within a line.






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






41. What a story or play is about.






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






43. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






44. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






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