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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Metaphor
Plot
Satire
Organizing Principles
2. Before the main part or actually story
Introduction
Tale
Imagery
Flashback
3. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Imagery
Soliloquy
Informative Purpose
Foreshadowing
4. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Ballad
Understatement
Assonance
Monologue
5. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Understatement
Denotation
Expository Purpose
Personification
6. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Ballad
Implication
Anachronism
Stereotype Character
7. 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
Feeling
Couplet
Expressive Purpose
Stereotype Character
8. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Descriptive Purpose
Alliteration
Tone
Falling Action
9. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Antagonist
Oxymoron
Blank Verse
Monologue
10. Humorous imitation
Antihero(ine)
Third-person
Parody
Sonnet
11. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Allegory
Cliche
Surrealism
Euphemism
12. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Hero(ine)
Narrative
Heroic Couplet
Pastoral
13. 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
Allusion
Introduction
Folktale
Synecdoche
14. A short story teaching a lesson
Rhetorical Question
Ode
Parable
Villain(ess)
15. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Aside
Superhero(ine)
Mood
Parallelism
16. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Sarcasm
Poetic License
Metaphor
Free Verse
17. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Antihero(ine)
Personification
Persuasive Purpose
Narrative Purpose
18. The process by which the writer develops a character
Symbol
Epigram
Characterization
Idiom
19. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Figure of Speech
Euphony
Blank Verse
Fable
20. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Iambic Pentameter
Symbol
Folktale
Dramatic Monologue
21. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Rhyme Scheme
Idiom
First-person
Allusion
22. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Myth
Satire
Expressive Purpose
Syntax
23. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Maxim
Hero(ine)
Theater
Thesis
24. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Empathy
Inference
Anachronism
Euphemism
25. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Assonance
Third-person
Irony
Simile
26. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Anthropomorphism
Rhyme
Cliche
Oxymoron
27. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Foil
Epigram
Point of View
Persona
28. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Pastoral
Tale
Aphorism
Satire
29. A word imitating the sound it represents
Myth
Folktale
Aphorism
Onomatopoeia
30. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Style
Context
Romance
Epigram
31. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Foil
Context
Empathy
Ode
32. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Mood
Complication
Confidant
First-person
33. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Understatement
Figure of Speech
Climax
Interior Monologue
34. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Expository Purpose
Fable
Heroic Couplet
Ballad
35. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Consonance
Pun
Informative Purpose
36. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Anachronism
Rising Action
Ode
Climate
37. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Ode
Parallelism
Setting
Idiom
38. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Interior Monologue
Free Verse
Poetic Syntax
Organizing Principles
39. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Euphemism
Stream of Consciousness
Organizing Principles
Anthropomorphism
40. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Comedy
Third-person
Realism
41. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Exposition
Apostrophe
Theme
Dramatic Monologue
42. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Connotation
Argumentative purpose
Sonnet
Monologue
43. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Stereotype Character
Euphemism
Perspective
Satire
44. (tall): short piece of fiction
Legend
Tale
Organizing Principles
Farce
45. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Tone
Rhyme Scheme
Anthropomorphism
Legend
46. Words mean exactly what they say
Perspective
Figurative Language
Imagery
Literal Meaning
47. A group of lines in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Stanza
Topic
Stream of Consciousness
48. Point of view
Parallelism
Perspective
Connotation
Free Verse
49. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Confidant
Rhyme
Anthropomorphism
Poetic Diction
50. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Epithet
Symbol
Complication
Comedy