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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Syntax
Situational Irony
Literal Language
Falling Action
2. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Structure
Villanelle
Motif
Author's Purpose
3. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Elision
Legend
Comic Relief
Couplet
4. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Free Verse
Tone
Aside
Closed Form
5. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Foil
Sonnet
Stereotype
Allusion
6. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Repetition
Conflict
Characterization
Metonymy
7. 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.
Convention
Comic Relief
Spondee
Motif
8. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Apostrophe
Antagonist
Epigram
Fiction
9. The organizational form of a literary work.
Conflict
Myth
Octave
Structure
10. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Analogy
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Motif
Sestina
11. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Flashback
Synecdoche
Style
Setting
12. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Characterization
Symbolism
Comic Relief
Cliche
13. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Figurative Language
Theme
Dialect
Apostrophe
14. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Catharsis
Voice
Persona
Simile
15. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Convention
Symbolism
Diction
Dialogue
16. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Suspense
Foot
Irony
Reversal
17. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Aphorism
Onomatopoeia
Iamb
Dramatic Irony
18. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Sonnet
Epiphany
Imagery
Literal Language
19. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
1st Person
Audience
Setting
Image
20. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Denouement
Mood
Subject
21. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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22. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Connotation
Simile
Dramatic Irony
Free Verse
23. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Stereotype
Myth
External Conflict
Meter
24. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Theme
Fiction
Persona
Literal Language
25. 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.
Author's Purpose
Personification
Narrator
3rd Person (Omniscient)
26. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Blank Verse
Subject
Persona
Figurative Language
27. A character struggles against some outside force.
Audience
External Conflict
Verbal Irony
Elision
28. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Aside
Theme
Conceit
Voice
29. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Apostrophe
Simile
Epic
Verbal Irony
30. The time and place of a story or play.
Myth
Epiphany
Setting
Hyperbole
31. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Point of View
Metonymy
Iamb
Epic
32. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Style
Internal Conflict
Theme
Personification
33. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Villanelle
Epic
Persona
Recognition
34. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Blank Verse
Octave
Analogy
Free Verse
35. A three-line stanza.
Tercet
Irony
Falling Meter
Apostrophe
36. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Trochee
Cliche
Comic Relief
Understatement
37. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Convention
Subplot
Act
Sestet
38. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Caesura
Ballad
Audience
Theme
39. The selection of words in a literary work.
Aubade
Epic
Diction
Analogy
40. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Metonymy
Parody
Point of View
Theme
41. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Style
Narrator
Reversal
Verbal Irony
42. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Solioquy
Voice
Suspense
Allegory
43. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Trochee
Metaphor
Paradox
Ballad
44. 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.
Apostrophe
Irony
Alliteration
Voice
45. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Nonfiction
Assonance
Quatrain
Elision
46. A short saying with a moral.
Villanelle
Flashback
Elision
Aphorism
47. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Parody
Symbol
Aphorism
48. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Folklore
Pyrrhic
Closed Form
Structure
49. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Parody
Connotation
Syntax
Enjambment
50. The person who 'tells' the story.
Narrator
Epic
Reversal
Suspense