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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Feeling
Pastoral
Poetic License
Introduction
2. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Complication
Denotation
Mood
Sonnet
3. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Confidant
Parody
Epigram
Poetic License
4. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Paradox
Allusion
Exposition
Superhero(ine)
5. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Denouement
Foil
Inference
Irony
6. Recurring at regular intervals
Rhetorical Question
Rhythm
Denouement
Blank Verse
7. Subject
Analogy
Topic
Foil
Idiom
8. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Falling Action
Farce
Context
Assonance
9. A play on words
Figure of Speech
Pun
Flashback
Ballad
10. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Plot
Characterization
Confidant
Surrealism
11. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Pastoral
Antithesis
Allegory
Climax
12. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Synecdoche
Romance
Theme
Tale
13. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Metaphor
Style
Parallelism
Villain(ess)
14. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Pun
Empathy
Elegy
Analogy
15. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Blank Verse
Realism
First-person
Irony
16. Words mean exactly what they say
Inference
Interior Monologue
Implication
Literal Meaning
17. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Inference
Atmosphere
Euphemism
Comedy
18. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Theater
Folktale
Pun
Exciting Force
19. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Style
Atmosphere
Ballad
Couplet
20. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Ballad
Antagonist
Persuasive Purpose
Epigram
21. The freedom of a poet in writing
Poetic License
Comedy
Sarcasm
Theater
22. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Euphony
Genre
Euphemism
Legend
23. A contradiction or dilemma
Figurative Language
Paradox
Conflict
Pastoral
24. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Sequence Patterns
Apostrophe
Expressive Purpose
Epithet
25. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Feeling
Romance
Myth
Personification
26. 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
Interior Monologue
Realism
Flashback
Metonymy
27. 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
Pathos
Poetic Diction
Iambic Pentameter
Theme
28. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Sprung rhythm
Personification
Free Verse
Point of View
29. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Persuasive Purpose
Voice
Parable
Exposition
30. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Sprung rhythm
Expressive Purpose
Characterization
Rising Action
31. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Pathos
Sequence Patterns
Theme
Blank Verse
32. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Thesis
Poetic License
Persona
Interior Monologue
33. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Antihero(ine)
Understatement
Anachronism
Parody
34. A word imitating the sound it represents
Onomatopoeia
Stream of Consciousness
Rhyme Scheme
Conflict
35. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Concrete Poetry
Sequence Patterns
Pastoral
Dramatic Monologue
36. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Heroic Couplet
Alliteration
Rhyme
Myth
37. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Monologue
Conflict
Genre
Informative Purpose
38. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Argumentative purpose
Fable
Rising Action
Irony
39. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Feeling
Realism
Understatement
Figure of Speech
40. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Metonymy
Descriptive Purpose
Sonnet
41. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Climax
Narrative
Falling Action
Soliloquy
42. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Voice
Anachronism
Sequence Patterns
Introduction
43. Dramatic speech to oneself
Synecdoche
Epithet
Point of View
Soliloquy
44. The process by which the writer develops a character
Topic
Denotation
Oxymoron
Characterization
45. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Climax
Setting
Antagonist
Folktale
46. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
First-person
Voice
Narrative
Euphemism
47. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Apostrophe
Denouement
Descriptive Purpose
Rhythm
48. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Third-person
Pun
Mood
Confidant
49. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Oxymoron
Foil
Understatement
Tone
50. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Pathos
Romance
Maxim
Poetic Diction