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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 a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Trochee
Dramatic Irony
Anapest
Internal Conflict
2. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Point of View
Pyrrhic
Flashback
Parable
3. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Epic
Dialect
Catharsis
Alliteration
4. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Narrator
Ballad
Octave
Imagery
5. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Audience
Villanelle
Figurative Language
Allusion
6. A short saying with a moral.
Enjambment
Character
Dialect
Aphorism
7. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Literal Language
1st Person
Setting
Mood
8. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Rhythm
Dialect
Allusion
Synecdoche
9. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Diction
3rd Person (Limited)
Sonnet
Plot
10. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Anapest
Pyrrhic
Legend
Aubade
11. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Tone
Allusion
Voice
Folklore
12. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Audience
Foreshadowing
Fiction
Subplot
13. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Aphorism
Fiction
Ode
Rhythm
14. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Antagonist
Foreshadowing
Theme
Blank Verse
15. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Parody
Spondee
Ode
Myth
16. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Understatement
Stereotype
Aubade
Recognition
17. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Falling Action
Aside
Legend
Stereotype
18. The selection of words in a literary work.
Apostrophe
Hyperbole
Diction
3rd Person (Omniscient)
19. The organizational form of a literary work.
Irony
Structure
Voice
3rd Person (Limited)
20. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Satire
Connotation
3rd Person (Limited)
Legend
21. 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.
Nonfiction
Personification
Voice
Rising Action
22. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Dactyl
Dialect
Spondee
Anapest
23. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Stereotype
Subplot
Nonfiction
Apostrophe
24. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Epiphany
Situational Irony
Tercet
Elision
25. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Ballad
Epiphany
Tercet
3rd Person (Omniscient)
26. A four line stanza in a poem.
Epigram
Quatrain
Free Verse
Scenes
27. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Literal Language
Elegy
Symbol
Foot
28. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Myth
Act
Onomatopoeia
Personification
29. 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.
Blank Verse
Falling Action
Climax
Enjambment
30. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Subplot
Simile
1st Person
Suspense
31. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Parable
Dialect
Stereotype
Legend
32. A poem that tells a story.
Literal Language
Dramatic Irony
Parallelism
Narrative Poem
33. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Foil
Alliteration
Denouement
Conflict
34. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Folklore
Metonymy
Ode
Aubade
35. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Style
Point of View
Satire
Conflict
36. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Trochee
Cliche
Villanelle
Reversal
37. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Couplet
Internal Conflict
Rhyme
Climax
38. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Persona
Suspense
Myth
39. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Stanza
Denotation
Pyrrhic
Rising Action
40. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Denotation
Couplet
Imagery
Trochee
41. A three-line stanza.
Flashback
Tercet
Dialogue
Sestina
42. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Folklore
Diction
Image
Cliche
43. The time and place of a story or play.
Synecdoche
Setting
Characterization
Act
44. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Assonance
Aside
Folklore
Aubade
45. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Solioquy
Foil
Trochee
Syntax
46. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Flashback
Iamb
Character
Aubade
47. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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48. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Comic Relief
Theme
Narrative Poem
Epiphany
49. 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
Antagonist
Character
Fiction
50. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Onomatopoeia
Subplot
Trochee
External Conflict