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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






2. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. A four line stanza in a poem.






8. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






9. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






10. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






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






12. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






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






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






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






16. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






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






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






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






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






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.






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






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






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






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






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






31. The person who 'tells' the story.






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






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






34. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






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






36. A three-line stanza.






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






38. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






39. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






40. What a story or play is about.






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






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






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






44. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






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






46. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






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

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48. The selection of words in a literary work.






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






50. The conversation of characters in a literary work.