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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Imagery
Feeling
Tone
Foreshadowing
2. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Idiom
Concrete Poetry
Denotation
Foil
3. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Antagonist
Complication
Conclusion
Empathy
4. A final settlement
Dialect
Poetic Syntax
Conclusion
Tone
5. A play on words
Rhyme Scheme
Pun
Onomatopoeia
Style
6. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Hero(ine)
Allegory
Inference
Legend
7. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Pathos
Implication
Stanza
Myth
8. The final actions or solution of the plot
Rising Action
Complication
Perspective
Resolution
9. Recurring at regular intervals
Rhythm
Maxim
Topic
Complication
10. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Simile
Blank Verse
Hero(ine)
Anecdote
11. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Assonance
Empathy
Climate
Crisis
12. 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
Personification
Antihero(ine)
Conclusion
13. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Rhyme Scheme
Confidant
Soliloquy
Ode
14. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Fable
Simile
Concrete Poetry
Folktale
15. Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
Pun
Rhyme
Sprung rhythm
16. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Climax
Resolution
Understatement
Rhyme
17. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Feeling
Analogy
Understatement
Foreshadowing
18. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Poetic License
Syntax
Rhyme
Aphorism
19. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Persuasive Purpose
Poetic Syntax
Flashback
Third-person
20. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Pastoral
Farce
Tragedy
Metonymy
21. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Connotation
Complication
Descriptive Purpose
Concrete Poetry
22. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Sarcasm
Blank Verse
Characterization
Imagery
23. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Thesis
Irony
Crisis
Parallelism
24. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Legend
Villain(ess)
Persona
Euphony
25. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Parody
Atmosphere
Literal Meaning
Aside
26. A short story teaching a lesson
Parable
Poetic License
Satire
Expressive Purpose
27. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Stream of Consciousness
Allusion
Blank Verse
28. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Narrative
Superhero(ine)
Understatement
First-person
29. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Realism
Concrete Poetry
Implication
Metaphor
30. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Assonance
Poetic Syntax
Rhyme Scheme
Introduction
31. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Rhetorical Question
Feeling
Climate
Ballad
32. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Foreshadowing
Argumentative purpose
Heroic Couplet
Simile
33. Emotional appeal
Sarcasm
Apostrophe
Interior Monologue
Pathos
34. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Tale
Literal Meaning
Rhetorical Question
Sonnet
35. 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
Farce
Synecdoche
Confidant
Stanza
36. Words mean exactly what they say
Dialect
Assonance
Literal Meaning
Introduction
37. Before the main part or actually story
Dramatic Monologue
Pastoral
Introduction
Legend
38. The freedom of a poet in writing
Poetic License
Theme
Poetic Syntax
Personification
39. A group of lines in a poem
Atmosphere
Sarcasm
Stanza
Onomatopoeia
40. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Fable
Elegy
Euphemism
Poetic Diction
41. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Sprung rhythm
Metaphor
Implication
Ballad
42. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Foil
Hero(ine)
Perspective
Cliche
43. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Personification
Metaphor
Metonymy
Inference
44. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Denouement
Antagonist
Expository Purpose
First-person
45. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Euphemism
Antihero(ine)
Foil
Dialect
46. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Ballad
Monologue
Anthropomorphism
Persuasive Purpose
47. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Hero(ine)
Conflict
Legend
Figurative Language
48. A word imitating the sound it represents
Onomatopoeia
Analogy
Style
Dramatic Monologue
49. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Confidant
Epithet
Conflict
Rhyme
50. Subject
Antagonist
Rhyme
Topic
Aside