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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Stereotype Character
Diction
Interior Monologue
Sprung rhythm
2. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Folktale
Sonnet
Informative Purpose
Flashback
3. Recurring at regular intervals
Alliteration
Rhythm
Inference
Comedy
4. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Apostrophe
Anthropomorphism
Poetic Syntax
Thesis
5. A message that digresses from the main subject
Persona
Ballad
Legend
Aside
6. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Idiom
Tale
Conflict
Fable
7. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Myth
Foil
Climate
Realism
8. An idea that is implied or suggested
Hyperbole
Cliche
Poetic Diction
Connotation
9. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Persona
Climax
Characterization
Allegory
10. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Introduction
Sonnet
Pun
11. Words mean exactly what they say
Literal Meaning
Atmosphere
Parallelism
Persona
12. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Parable
Voice
Theater
Genre
13. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Blank Verse
Ode
Understatement
14. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Climax
Rhyme Scheme
Inference
Surrealism
15. Word choice
Anthropomorphism
Point of View
Conclusion
Diction
16. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Sprung rhythm
Figurative Language
Folktale
Analogy
17. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Anecdote
Free Verse
Style
Sonnet
18. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Euphony
Rhythm
Aside
Sonnet
19. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Persuasive Purpose
Parody
Antihero(ine)
Satire
20. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Allegory
Concrete Poetry
Confidant
Assonance
21. A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents - each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
Figurative Language
Tone
Iambic Pentameter
Fable
22. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Theme
Rhyme
Tone
Anthropomorphism
23. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Irony
Maxim
Organizing Principles
Understatement
24. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Iambic Pentameter
Anachronism
Tragedy
Expressive Purpose
25. To display emotions and ideas
Expressive Purpose
Metonymy
Rhyme Scheme
Tale
26. Point of view
Paradox
Narrative Purpose
Perspective
Syntax
27. 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
Myth
Rhyme
Synecdoche
Conclusion
28. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Sequence Patterns
Epithet
Figure of Speech
Legend
29. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Fable
Introduction
Point of View
Folktale
30. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Stereotype Character
Elegy
Rhyme
Fable
31. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Argumentative purpose
Atmosphere
Tragedy
Realism
32. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Allusion
Context
Epigram
Conflict
33. 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
Rising Action
Metonymy
Anecdote
Allegory
34. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Parallelism
Maxim
Legend
Feeling
35. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Organizing Principles
Figure of Speech
Comedy
Voice
36. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Folktale
Sonnet
Euphony
Exciting Force
37. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Conflict
Oxymoron
Simile
Feeling
38. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Monologue
Expository Purpose
Narrative Purpose
Parable
39. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Rising Action
Apostrophe
Poetic Diction
Epithet
40. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Connotation
Theater
Denotation
Symbol
41. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Complication
Alliteration
Implication
Onomatopoeia
42. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Myth
Rising Action
Analogy
Introduction
43. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Foreshadowing
Poetic Diction
Theme
Dialect
44. A group of lines in a poem
Blank Verse
Allusion
Atmosphere
Stanza
45. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Anastrophe
Atmosphere
Anecdote
Analogy
46. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Topic
Persona
Comedy
Poetic Diction
47. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Parable
Confidant
Crisis
Monologue
48. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Understatement
Argumentative purpose
Context
Oxymoron
49. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Consonance
Connotation
Voice
Anthropomorphism
50. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Euphemism
Villain(ess)
Pun
Topic