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






2. 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.






3. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






4. A short saying with a moral.






5. A four line stanza in a poem.






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






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






8. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






9. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






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






11. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






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






13. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






14. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






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






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






17. The dictionary meaning of a word.






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






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






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






21. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






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






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






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






25. A character struggles against some outside force.






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






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






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






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






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






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






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

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






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






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






44. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






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






46. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






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






48. A three-line stanza.






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






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