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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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1. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






2. Broken down acts.






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






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






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






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






7. A strong pause within a line.






8. A character struggles against some outside force.






9. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






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






11. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






12. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






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






14. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






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






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






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






18. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






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






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






21. A three-line stanza.






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






23. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






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






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






26. The dictionary meaning of a word.






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






28. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






29. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. The main character of a literary work.