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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Alliteration
Exposition
Rising Action
Foil
2. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rising Action
Rhyme Scheme
Imagery
Iambic Pentameter
3. Word choice
Realism
Dramatic Monologue
Oxymoron
Diction
4. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Poetic Syntax
Sonnet
Surrealism
Theater
5. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Sonnet
Metonymy
Satire
Euphemism
6. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Alliteration
Theme
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
7. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Feeling
Surrealism
Poetic Diction
8. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Hyperbole
Climate
Ballad
Perspective
9. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Superhero(ine)
Mood
Theater
Poetic Diction
10. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Symbol
Tone
Rhythm
Rhetorical Question
11. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Satire
Climax
Rising Action
Expository Purpose
12. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Narrative
Setting
Blank Verse
Crisis
13. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Figure of Speech
Parallelism
Point of View
Descriptive Purpose
14. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Surrealism
Assonance
Satire
Couplet
15. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Assonance
Theater
Poetic Diction
Antagonist
16. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Parallelism
Epigram
Foil
Style
17. The freedom of a poet in writing
Epigram
Surrealism
Poetic License
Sequence Patterns
18. A message that digresses from the main subject
Voice
Aside
Style
Syntax
19. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (or vice versa) - the specific for the general (or vice versa) - or the material for the thing made from it
Atmosphere
Iambic Pentameter
Tale
Synecdoche
20. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Foreshadowing
Descriptive Purpose
Thesis
Rhetorical Question
21. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Rhyme
Understatement
Surrealism
Paradox
22. Subject
Literal Meaning
Dialect
Topic
Apostrophe
23. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Dramatic Monologue
Confidant
Apostrophe
Ballad
24. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Introduction
Pastoral
Metonymy
25. The perspective from which a story is told
Sprung rhythm
Point of View
Blank Verse
Pathos
26. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Characterization
Heroic Couplet
Blank Verse
Thesis
27. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Setting
Voice
Diction
Assonance
28. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Perspective
Third-person
Foreshadowing
Euphemism
29. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Tragedy
Epigram
Point of View
Rhyme
30. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Dialect
Alliteration
Heroic Couplet
Romance
31. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Onomatopoeia
Context
Argumentative purpose
Antihero(ine)
32. Before the main part or actually story
Onomatopoeia
Romance
Introduction
Setting
33. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Atmosphere
Allegory
Third-person
Rhyme
34. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Organizing Principles
Setting
Informative Purpose
Stream of Consciousness
35. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Understatement
Exciting Force
Expressive Purpose
Inference
36. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Monologue
Myth
Narrative Purpose
Elegy
37. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Fable
Rhyme
Soliloquy
Conclusion
38. Presentation of the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Comedy
Aphorism
Syntax
Stream of Consciousness
39. A fixed idea or conception of a character or an idea that does not allow for any individuality; often based on religious/social/racial prejudices
Antithesis
Allusion
Stereotype Character
Conflict
40. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Feeling
Sonnet
Interior Monologue
Denouement
41. The prevailing psychological state
Fable
Climate
Setting
Realism
42. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Euphemism
Rising Action
Interior Monologue
Style
43. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Thesis
Euphony
Narrative
Legend
44. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Descriptive Purpose
Alliteration
Aside
Anachronism
45. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Romance
Style
Understatement
Empathy
46. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Alliteration
Symbol
Villain(ess)
Exposition
47. The final actions or solution of the plot
Organizing Principles
Euphemism
Point of View
Resolution
48. A short story teaching a lesson
Onomatopoeia
Feeling
Fable
Parable
49. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Pastoral
Farce
Theme
Perspective
50. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Figurative Language
Antithesis
Style
Allegory