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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Rhythm
Heroic Couplet
Expository Purpose
Ballad
2. Before the main part or actually story
Figure of Speech
Atmosphere
Personification
Introduction
3. Conjoining contradictory terms
Expressive Purpose
Concrete Poetry
Metonymy
Oxymoron
4. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Epithet
Assonance
Mood
Fable
5. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Concrete Poetry
Irony
Satire
Figurative Language
6. Words mean exactly what they say
Literal Meaning
Couplet
Consonance
Oxymoron
7. Exaggeration
Analogy
Simile
Realism
Hyperbole
8. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Hyperbole
Genre
Theme
Confidant
9. The process by which the writer develops a character
Characterization
Symbol
Ballad
Imagery
10. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Simile
Dramatic Monologue
Feeling
Informative Purpose
11. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Foil
Metonymy
Consonance
Setting
12. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Foil
Synecdoche
Aside
Complication
13. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Hyperbole
Conclusion
Concrete Poetry
Onomatopoeia
14. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Antithesis
Syntax
Poetic Diction
Introduction
15. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Theater
Rhetorical Question
Exposition
Consonance
16. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Antagonist
First-person
Epigram
Ballad
17. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Rhyme Scheme
Free Verse
Argumentative purpose
Narrative Purpose
18. 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
Expository Purpose
Iambic Pentameter
Realism
Poetic License
19. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Implication
Theme
Rhyme Scheme
Couplet
20. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Consonance
Persona
Complication
Fable
21. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Denouement
Anastrophe
Setting
Conflict
22. A final settlement
Conclusion
Voice
Resolution
Ballad
23. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Plot
Cliche
Ballad
Rhetorical Question
24. A short story teaching a lesson
Monologue
Parable
Paradox
Comedy
25. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Understatement
Imagery
Allegory
Setting
26. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Concrete Poetry
Euphemism
Myth
Assonance
27. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Argumentative purpose
Antihero(ine)
Allegory
Apostrophe
28. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Resolution
Pun
Persona
Maxim
29. Suggestions or hints
Soliloquy
Oxymoron
Implication
Couplet
30. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Literal Meaning
Crisis
Allusion
Stream of Consciousness
31. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Folktale
Falling Action
Comedy
Setting
32. 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
Ode
Romance
Synecdoche
Epigram
33. Word choice
Narrative
Rhyme
Conflict
Diction
34. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Synecdoche
Persuasive Purpose
Pathos
Third-person
35. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Complication
Allegory
Confidant
Narrative
36. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Denouement
Complication
Epigram
Rising Action
37. A group of lines in a poem
Rhythm
Tone
Stanza
Persona
38. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Superhero(ine)
Parallelism
Farce
Organizing Principles
39. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Romance
Style
Empathy
Tragedy
40. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Understatement
Fable
Poetic Diction
Paradox
41. Emotional appeal
Persuasive Purpose
Voice
Pathos
Rhyme
42. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Persuasive Purpose
Figurative Language
Pathos
43. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Analogy
Sprung rhythm
Antihero(ine)
Folktale
44. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Romance
Sprung rhythm
Sonnet
45. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Parody
Crisis
Irony
Apostrophe
46. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Aside
Confidant
Ode
Romance
47. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Antagonist
Pun
Free Verse
Sequence Patterns
48. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Style
Assonance
Feeling
Connotation
49. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Elegy
Persuasive Purpose
Interior Monologue
Concrete Poetry
50. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Sequence Patterns
Romance
Aphorism
Hero(ine)