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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Interior Monologue
Villain(ess)
Mood
Concrete Poetry
2. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Ballad
Rhyme
Crisis
Soliloquy
3. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Rising Action
Introduction
Tragedy
Analogy
4. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Figurative Language
Villain(ess)
Tragedy
Pastoral
5. Conjoining contradictory terms
Perspective
Figurative Language
Ode
Oxymoron
6. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Cliche
Figurative Language
Surrealism
Personification
7. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Informative Purpose
Rhythm
Setting
8. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Superhero(ine)
Alliteration
Crisis
Poetic License
9. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Villain(ess)
Couplet
Superhero(ine)
Persona
10. Subject
Poetic Diction
Maxim
Topic
Sequence Patterns
11. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Symbol
Ode
Climate
Antihero(ine)
12. Dictionary definition of a word
Theater
Iambic Pentameter
Monologue
Denotation
13. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Romance
Sarcasm
Literal Meaning
Characterization
14. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Metonymy
Denouement
Antagonist
Free Verse
15. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Conclusion
Metonymy
Apostrophe
Syntax
16. Series of events
Descriptive Purpose
Connotation
Denouement
Plot
17. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Metaphor
Epigram
Tragedy
Feeling
18. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Conclusion
Descriptive Purpose
Folktale
Rhyme
19. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Sprung rhythm
Consonance
Parallelism
Synecdoche
20. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Feeling
Dialect
Rhetorical Question
Romance
21. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Free Verse
Satire
Rising Action
Narrative
22. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Narrative
Antagonist
Anecdote
Figure of Speech
23. (tall): short piece of fiction
Tale
Maxim
Satire
Ballad
24. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Poetic License
Ode
Descriptive Purpose
Context
25. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Understatement
Inference
Alliteration
Assonance
26. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Conflict
Tragedy
Anecdote
Denotation
27. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Cliche
Inference
Free Verse
Ode
28. Recurring at regular intervals
Rhythm
Epigram
Personification
Implication
29. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Conflict
Ballad
Empathy
Simile
30. Dramatic speech to oneself
Argumentative purpose
Soliloquy
Stream of Consciousness
Crisis
31. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Tone
Folktale
Thesis
Blank Verse
32. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Antithesis
Figurative Language
Mood
Theme
33. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Legend
Anachronism
Idiom
Dialect
34. A final settlement
Antihero(ine)
Organizing Principles
Connotation
Conclusion
35. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Confidant
Simile
Dramatic Monologue
Syntax
36. The perspective from which a story is told
Allusion
Characterization
Crisis
Point of View
37. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Tale
Voice
Soliloquy
Third-person
38. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Perspective
Figurative Language
Flashback
Concrete Poetry
39. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Elegy
Conflict
40. 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
Metaphor
Atmosphere
Myth
Synecdoche
41. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Rhetorical Question
First-person
Heroic Couplet
Metaphor
42. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Plot
Feeling
Myth
Comedy
43. Words mean exactly what they say
Literal Meaning
Persuasive Purpose
Dramatic Monologue
Stanza
44. Word choice
Ode
Diction
Blank Verse
Myth
45. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Informative Purpose
Anecdote
Rhyme
Theme
46. Emotional appeal
Monologue
Pathos
Plot
Figurative Language
47. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Exposition
Allusion
Symbol
Assonance
48. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Figure of Speech
Stream of Consciousness
Rhetorical Question
Couplet
49. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Conflict
Confidant
Cliche
Context
50. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Fable
Heroic Couplet
Anecdote
Complication