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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Climax
Metonymy
Style
Theme
2. The final actions or solution of the plot
Introduction
Tale
Cliche
Resolution
3. The process by which the writer develops a character
Rhyme Scheme
Anecdote
Characterization
Thesis
4. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Voice
Paradox
Comedy
Persona
5. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Assonance
Metonymy
Antihero(ine)
Thesis
6. (tall): short piece of fiction
Hyperbole
Tale
Irony
Denotation
7. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Understatement
Apostrophe
Comedy
Pastoral
8. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Superhero(ine)
Anthropomorphism
Genre
Parallelism
9. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Climate
Exciting Force
Style
Consonance
10. Before the main part or actually story
Persuasive Purpose
Introduction
Descriptive Purpose
Setting
11. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Anthropomorphism
Aside
Point of View
Elegy
12. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Expressive Purpose
Parallelism
Literal Meaning
Apostrophe
13. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Paradox
Aside
Irony
Dialect
14. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Metonymy
First-person
Rising Action
Context
15. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Stanza
Aside
Anachronism
Feeling
16. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Assonance
Narrative
Context
Resolution
17. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Simile
Poetic Syntax
Farce
Stanza
18. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Genre
Exciting Force
Denotation
Syntax
19. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Personification
Free Verse
Farce
Literal Meaning
20. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Symbol
Feeling
Poetic Diction
Topic
21. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Denotation
Climax
Epigram
Complication
22. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Elegy
Superhero(ine)
Exciting Force
Figure of Speech
23. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Romance
Falling Action
Idiom
Sarcasm
24. A word imitating the sound it represents
Onomatopoeia
Complication
Romance
Ode
25. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Plot
Exciting Force
Sonnet
Parallelism
26. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Epigram
Rhetorical Question
Denouement
Characterization
27. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Voice
Exposition
Aphorism
Personification
28. The perspective from which a story is told
Conflict
Sprung rhythm
Point of View
Irony
29. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Rhyme
Realism
Anastrophe
Consonance
30. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Euphemism
Anastrophe
Narrative Purpose
Understatement
31. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Inference
Legend
Literal Meaning
Figurative Language
32. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Genre
Mood
Conflict
33. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Dramatic Monologue
Poetic Syntax
Empathy
Anachronism
34. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Sarcasm
Narrative Purpose
Mood
Pathos
35. A group of lines in a poem
Hyperbole
Stanza
Parable
Organizing Principles
36. 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
Stereotype Character
Diction
Poetic License
Understatement
37. Humorous imitation
Imagery
Antithesis
Parody
Anastrophe
38. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Comedy
Surrealism
Idiom
Concrete Poetry
39. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Parallelism
Informative Purpose
Setting
Inference
40. The freedom of a poet in writing
Metonymy
Allegory
Poetic License
Satire
41. 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
Synecdoche
Hero(ine)
Theater
Myth
42. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Anecdote
Sonnet
Denouement
Soliloquy
43. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Villain(ess)
Oxymoron
Paradox
Ballad
44. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Interior Monologue
Apostrophe
Tone
Syntax
45. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Foreshadowing
Dramatic Monologue
Parallelism
Rhyme Scheme
46. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Monologue
Dramatic Monologue
Antagonist
Parallelism
47. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Parody
Plot
Parable
Heroic Couplet
48. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Dialect
Pathos
Alliteration
Myth
49. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Cliche
Flashback
Argumentative purpose
Euphemism
50. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Allusion
Euphony
Thesis
Crisis
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