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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 long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Ode
Style
Imagery
Personification
2. A short saying with a moral.
Narrative Poem
Spondee
Aphorism
Denotation
3. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Legend
Allusion
Epigram
Assonance
4. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
3rd Person (Limited)
Verbal Irony
Paradox
Sestina
5. 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.
Image
Literal Language
Voice
Villanelle
6. 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.
Parallelism
Understatement
Mood
3rd Person (Omniscient)
7. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Image
Subject
Voice
Rhythm
8. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Sestet
Recognition
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
9. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Rising Action
Antagonist
Closed Form
Exposition
10. A four line stanza in a poem.
Quatrain
Conflict
Synecdoche
Dactyl
11. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Symbol
Trochee
Ballad
Internal Conflict
12. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Plot
Foot
Narrator
Sonnet
13. The person who 'tells' the story.
Convention
Falling Action
Narrator
Myth
14. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Stereotype
Characterization
Falling Meter
Symbolism
15. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Denotation
Motif
Fiction
Syntax
16. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Flashback
Free Verse
1st Person
Closed Form
17. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Paradox
Conceit
Allusion
Lyric Poem
18. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Villanelle
Epiphany
Meter
Conflict
19. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Tone
Epiphany
Onomatopoeia
Dramatic Irony
20. A three-line stanza.
Dactyl
Rhythm
Internal Conflict
Tercet
21. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Anapest
Situational Irony
Stanza
Rhythm
22. A poem that tells a story.
Voice
Symbolism
Narrative Poem
Image
23. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Syntax
Setting
Meter
Sestet
24. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Cliche
Villanelle
Dramatic Irony
Protagonist
25. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Apostrophe
Pyrrhic
Image
26. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Cliche
Apostrophe
Verbal Irony
Pyrrhic
27. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Climax
Dialect
Satire
Caesura
28. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Denouement
Climax
Sonnet
Rhythm
29. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
3rd Person (Limited)
Act
Denouement
External Conflict
30. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Suspense
Epiphany
Conceit
Alliteration
31. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Folklore
Repetition
Trochee
Internal Conflict
32. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Trochee
Foil
Alliteration
Blank Verse
33. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Understatement
Couplet
Subplot
1st Person
34. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Climax
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Tercet
35. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Theme
Falling Action
Foot
Analogy
36. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Comic Relief
Nonfiction
Apostrophe
Cliche
37. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Lyric Poem
Stereotype
Irony
1st Person
38. The selection of words in a literary work.
Conflict
Myth
Suspense
Diction
39. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Internal Conflict
Aside
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Aubade
40. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Enjambment
Subplot
Literal Language
Allegory
41. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Onomatopoeia
Stereotype
Ode
Elision
42. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Irony
Aside
Alliteration
Foil
43. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Assonance
Internal Conflict
Analogy
Stereotype
44. The main character of a literary work.
Fiction
Couplet
Nonfiction
Protagonist
45. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Structure
Synecdoche
Fiction
Pyrrhic
46. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Fiction
Rhythm
Climax
Aphorism
47. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Setting
3rd Person (Limited)
Ballad
Aubade
48. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Personification
Tone
Audience
Catharsis
49. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Dialect
Ballad
Satire
Structure
50. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Connotation
Rising Action
Closed Form
Recognition