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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Parable
Empathy
Soliloquy
2. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Persuasive Purpose
Characterization
Sarcasm
Sprung rhythm
3. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Dramatic Monologue
Symbol
Euphony
Complication
4. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Euphony
Expository Purpose
Sonnet
Informative Purpose
5. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Feeling
Euphemism
Parable
6. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Epigram
Voice
Conflict
Introduction
7. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Simile
Couplet
Symbol
Confidant
8. The prevailing psychological state
Aside
Climate
Metaphor
Parody
9. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Persona
Poetic Syntax
Myth
Foil
10. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Irony
Context
Soliloquy
Poetic Syntax
11. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Comedy
Plot
Villain(ess)
Anthropomorphism
12. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Tone
Figurative Language
Sarcasm
Conflict
13. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Villain(ess)
Introduction
Empathy
Anastrophe
14. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Narrative Purpose
Dramatic Monologue
Figure of Speech
Denotation
15. A category or type of literary or artistic work
First-person
Genre
Figure of Speech
Poetic Diction
16. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Genre
Antagonist
Anthropomorphism
Dialect
17. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Analogy
Poetic Diction
Irony
Theme
18. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Antihero(ine)
Sarcasm
Anecdote
Argumentative purpose
19. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Descriptive Purpose
Persona
Allusion
Syntax
20. 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
Climax
Antihero(ine)
Imagery
21. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Climax
Maxim
Expository Purpose
Parallelism
22. A word imitating the sound it represents
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Iambic Pentameter
Hero(ine)
23. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Analogy
Paradox
Theme
Conflict
24. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Euphemism
Apostrophe
Genre
Argumentative purpose
25. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Diction
Parallelism
Allusion
Antithesis
26. Humorous imitation
Conclusion
Parody
Organizing Principles
Comedy
27. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Persona
Couplet
Tragedy
Figure of Speech
28. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Romance
Theme
Rising Action
Inference
29. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Anachronism
Conclusion
Realism
Persuasive Purpose
30. Suggestions or hints
Theater
Idiom
Implication
Voice
31. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Parody
Poetic License
Genre
32. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Euphemism
Persuasive Purpose
Foreshadowing
Narrative Purpose
33. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Confidant
Superhero(ine)
Exciting Force
Figure of Speech
34. Conjoining contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Alliteration
Exposition
Crisis
35. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Apostrophe
Euphemism
Characterization
Figure of Speech
36. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Denotation
Consonance
Monologue
Concrete Poetry
37. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Rhetorical Question
Inference
Theater
Voice
38. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Introduction
Pastoral
Blank Verse
Anthropomorphism
39. A contradiction or dilemma
Metaphor
Paradox
Couplet
Climax
40. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Empathy
Inference
Thesis
Tale
41. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Complication
Elegy
Blank Verse
Rhyme Scheme
42. Symbolism; substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') or with which it is closely identified
Metonymy
Narrative Purpose
Romance
Ballad
43. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Villain(ess)
Feeling
Stereotype Character
Fable
44. Recurring at regular intervals
Concrete Poetry
Rhythm
Narrative
Antithesis
45. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Antihero(ine)
Myth
Surrealism
Theme
46. The main (good) character
Hero(ine)
Tone
Voice
Resolution
47. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Soliloquy
Oxymoron
Topic
Conflict
48. The freedom of a poet in writing
Consonance
Dialect
Ballad
Poetic License
49. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Alliteration
Sprung rhythm
Informative Purpose
Foreshadowing
50. Subject
Topic
Simile
Inference
Romance