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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Thesis
Rhyme
Conflict
Synecdoche
2. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Rhetorical Question
Superhero(ine)
Crisis
Blank Verse
3. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Feeling
Sarcasm
Parody
Stream of Consciousness
4. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Foil
Imagery
Alliteration
Genre
5. A final settlement
Allegory
Conclusion
Epigram
Surrealism
6. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Allegory
Figure of Speech
Narrative
Realism
7. The final actions or solution of the plot
Euphony
Setting
Resolution
Tragedy
8. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Rhetorical Question
Fable
Analogy
Implication
9. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Antihero(ine)
Characterization
Aside
Tragedy
10. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Perspective
Falling Action
Oxymoron
Simile
11. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Exposition
Poetic License
Descriptive Purpose
Diction
12. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Dramatic Monologue
Descriptive Purpose
Thesis
Cliche
13. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Villain(ess)
Style
Simile
Feeling
14. 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
Couplet
Climax
Theater
15. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Comedy
Ode
Imagery
Voice
16. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Exciting Force
Consonance
Narrative
Rising Action
17. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Symbol
Antagonist
Crisis
Persona
18. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Sequence Patterns
Hero(ine)
Symbol
Voice
19. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Realism
Rising Action
Setting
Characterization
20. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
Folktale
Climate
Onomatopoeia
21. Series of events
Simile
Informative Purpose
Personification
Plot
22. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Organizing Principles
Aphorism
Rhythm
Idiom
23. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Informative Purpose
Persona
Rhythm
Consonance
24. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Aside
Anastrophe
Diction
Argumentative purpose
25. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Pun
Elegy
Tale
Pathos
26. Exaggeration
Atmosphere
Hyperbole
Concrete Poetry
Analogy
27. The freedom of a poet in writing
Stream of Consciousness
Euphony
Poetic License
Romance
28. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Genre
Persuasive Purpose
Euphemism
Irony
29. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Stereotype Character
Analogy
Inference
Diction
30. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Euphony
Falling Action
Allusion
Folktale
31. The main (good) character
Climax
Synecdoche
Hero(ine)
Style
32. 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
Rhyme Scheme
Synecdoche
Narrative Purpose
Euphemism
33. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Anecdote
Pathos
Satire
First-person
34. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Setting
Thesis
Symbol
Epithet
35. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Tale
Farce
Metaphor
Voice
36. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Blank Verse
Satire
Poetic License
Exciting Force
37. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Myth
Introduction
Narrative Purpose
Anthropomorphism
38. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Rising Action
Characterization
Dialect
Complication
39. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Villain(ess)
Legend
Connotation
Interior Monologue
40. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Theater
Epigram
Surrealism
Anecdote
41. The prevailing psychological state
Rhythm
Connotation
Climate
Exciting Force
42. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Imagery
Metonymy
Sequence Patterns
Denotation
43. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Satire
Parallelism
Irony
Fable
44. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
Ode
Understatement
Antihero(ine)
45. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Narrative
Superhero(ine)
Conflict
Rhyme
46. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Ballad
Organizing Principles
Dramatic Monologue
Anecdote
47. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Characterization
Interior Monologue
Hyperbole
Genre
48. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Point of View
Rhetorical Question
Exposition
Rising Action
49. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Poetic Syntax
Confidant
Expressive Purpose
Tone
50. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Feeling
Romance
Conclusion
Allusion