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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






3. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






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






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






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






7. The selection of words in a literary work.






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






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






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






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






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






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






18. A three-line stanza.






19. The dictionary meaning of a word.






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






21. A strong pause within a line.






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






23. A character struggles against some outside force.






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






25. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






26. The organizational form of a literary work.






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






28. The main character of a literary work.






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






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






31. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






32. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






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






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






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






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






37. What a story or play is about.






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






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






40. 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.






41. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






42. Broken down acts.






43. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.