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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






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






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






4. The dictionary meaning of a word.






5. Broken down acts.






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






7. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






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






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






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






11. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






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






19. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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

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






30. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






31. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






32. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






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






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






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






36. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






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






48. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






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






50. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.