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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.






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






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






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.






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






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






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.






8. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






9. The organizational form of a literary work.






10. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






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






12. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






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






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






15. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






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.






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






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






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






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






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.






23. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






24. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






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.






26. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






27. A character struggles against some outside force.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. A three-line stanza.






36. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






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






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






39. The selection of words in a literary work.






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






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






42. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






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






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.






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






46. A short saying with a moral.






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






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






49. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






50. The person who 'tells' the story.