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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Monologue
Tone
Foil
Figurative Language
2. Humorous imitation
Foil
Complication
Parody
Characterization
3. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Informative Purpose
Inference
Argumentative purpose
Metonymy
4. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Fable
Anachronism
Folktale
Confidant
5. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Connotation
Metaphor
Perspective
Tragedy
6. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Persona
Imagery
Understatement
Anthropomorphism
7. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Rhyme
Blank Verse
Foil
Rhyme Scheme
8. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Atmosphere
Denouement
Expository Purpose
Sonnet
9. A word imitating the sound it represents
Irony
Analogy
Onomatopoeia
Poetic Diction
10. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Argumentative purpose
Analogy
Setting
Imagery
11. Word choice
Diction
Perspective
Antithesis
Concrete Poetry
12. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Implication
Descriptive Purpose
Complication
Interior Monologue
13. The freedom of a poet in writing
Poetic License
Syntax
Voice
Myth
14. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Sprung rhythm
Figure of Speech
Euphony
Plot
15. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Narrative
Exposition
Descriptive Purpose
Informative Purpose
16. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Persuasive Purpose
Rhyme
Epithet
Idiom
17. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Assonance
Anecdote
Feeling
Tragedy
18. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Theater
Foil
Cliche
Assonance
19. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Personification
Apostrophe
Free Verse
Antihero(ine)
20. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Style
Narrative Purpose
Legend
Connotation
21. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Context
Denouement
Rhyme Scheme
Parody
22. A short story teaching a lesson
Parable
Tragedy
Tone
Rhetorical Question
23. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Personification
Inference
Understatement
Denotation
24. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Thesis
Myth
Euphemism
Allusion
25. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Farce
Argumentative purpose
Dramatic Monologue
Oxymoron
26. A final settlement
Denotation
Conclusion
Blank Verse
Sarcasm
27. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Pun
Parable
Apostrophe
Free Verse
28. Dictionary definition of a word
Empathy
Realism
Legend
Denotation
29. The perspective from which a story is told
Syntax
Point of View
Realism
Aside
30. Point of view
Exposition
Perspective
Confidant
Idiom
31. A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
Metonymy
Diction
Synecdoche
32. Conjoining contradictory terms
Resolution
Genre
Oxymoron
Literal Meaning
33. 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
Syntax
Context
Synecdoche
Idiom
34. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Organizing Principles
Satire
Consonance
Realism
35. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Paradox
Rhyme
Concrete Poetry
Tale
36. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Allegory
Conflict
Third-person
Interior Monologue
37. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Ballad
Introduction
Irony
Conclusion
38. To display emotions and ideas
Rising Action
Superhero(ine)
Figurative Language
Expressive Purpose
39. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Euphony
Climax
Feeling
Descriptive Purpose
40. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Informative Purpose
Anachronism
Rhyme
Consonance
41. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Personification
Anecdote
Heroic Couplet
Imagery
42. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Idiom
Euphony
Rhythm
Exciting Force
43. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Climate
Pathos
Anastrophe
Concrete Poetry
44. Emotional appeal
Pathos
Dialect
Diction
Myth
45. 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
Third-person
Dramatic Monologue
Stereotype Character
Folktale
46. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Sonnet
Couplet
Symbol
Denouement
47. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Sprung rhythm
Free Verse
Diction
Elegy
48. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Introduction
Dialect
Expository Purpose
Atmosphere
49. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Confidant
Surrealism
Iambic Pentameter
Perspective
50. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Genre
Falling Action
Rising Action