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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






2. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






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






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






5. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






6. A poem that tells a story.






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. The dictionary meaning of a word.






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






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






16. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






25. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






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






33. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






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






35. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






36. A strong pause within a line.






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






38. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






39. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






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






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






42. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






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






44. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






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






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






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






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






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






50. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.