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






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






3. Broken down acts.






4. The dictionary meaning of a word.






5. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






6. 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.






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






8. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






9. A four line stanza in a poem.






10. 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.






11. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






12. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






13. The main character of a literary work.






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






15. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






16. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






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






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






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






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






21. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






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






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






24. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






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






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






27. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






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






29. 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.






30. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






31. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






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






33. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






34. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






35. A short saying with a moral.






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






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






38. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






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






40. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






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






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






43. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






44. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






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






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






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






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






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






50. The selection of words in a literary work.