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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. A strong pause within a line.






9. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






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






11. The dictionary meaning of a word.






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






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






14. What a story or play is about.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






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






27. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






28. 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.






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






30. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






31. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






32. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






33. The organizational form of a literary work.






34. The main character of a literary work.






35. The person who 'tells' the story.






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






37. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






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






39. A four line stanza in a poem.






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






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






48. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






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






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