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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. Series of events
Falling Action
Empathy
Satire
Plot
2. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Expressive Purpose
Synecdoche
Irony
Epithet
3. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Figurative Language
Conflict
Apostrophe
Syntax
4. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Exciting Force
Resolution
Monologue
Sprung rhythm
5. Suggestions or hints
Introduction
Implication
Rhythm
Antithesis
6. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Dramatic Monologue
Diction
Metonymy
Rhythm
7. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Parody
Climax
Maxim
Concrete Poetry
8. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Blank Verse
Antagonist
Theme
Feeling
9. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Villain(ess)
Heroic Couplet
Genre
Crisis
10. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Tale
Ballad
Poetic Syntax
Tragedy
11. Word choice
Diction
Figure of Speech
Theme
Alliteration
12. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Assonance
Mood
Monologue
Antithesis
13. A message that digresses from the main subject
Tragedy
Soliloquy
Aside
Sprung rhythm
14. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Rhythm
Feeling
Maxim
Rhetorical Question
15. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme Scheme
Sequence Patterns
Surrealism
16. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Dialect
Expository Purpose
Third-person
Alliteration
17. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Cliche
Poetic Diction
Rising Action
Antihero(ine)
18. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Aphorism
Setting
Persuasive Purpose
Perspective
19. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Theater
Myth
Pun
Epigram
20. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Exciting Force
Satire
Figure of Speech
Denotation
21. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Synecdoche
Context
Climax
Thesis
22. A play on words
Personification
Pun
Stanza
Parody
23. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Anachronism
Alliteration
Plot
Sprung rhythm
24. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Antithesis
Paradox
Aphorism
Apostrophe
25. Subject
Blank Verse
Topic
Synecdoche
Antagonist
26. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Interior Monologue
Empathy
Figure of Speech
Climate
27. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Poetic Syntax
Euphony
Denouement
Organizing Principles
28. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Personification
Crisis
Monologue
Inference
29. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Hero(ine)
Poetic Syntax
Myth
Argumentative purpose
30. Dramatic speech to oneself
Expressive Purpose
Oxymoron
Resolution
Soliloquy
31. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Aphorism
Sarcasm
Anastrophe
Analogy
32. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Descriptive Purpose
Consonance
First-person
Exposition
33. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Narrative Purpose
Confidant
Anthropomorphism
Antagonist
34. Humorous imitation
Blank Verse
Parody
Euphemism
Allegory
35. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Sprung rhythm
Ballad
Couplet
Onomatopoeia
36. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Theme
Narrative
Anecdote
Imagery
37. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Tale
Superhero(ine)
Synecdoche
Realism
38. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Ode
Analogy
Couplet
Informative Purpose
39. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Couplet
Anachronism
Sonnet
Legend
40. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Couplet
Topic
Idiom
Plot
41. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Rhetorical Question
Narrative
Surrealism
Superhero(ine)
42. (tall): short piece of fiction
Climate
Interior Monologue
Diction
Tale
43. Conjoining contradictory terms
Oxymoron
First-person
Onomatopoeia
Analogy
44. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Topic
Surrealism
Aphorism
Rhetorical Question
45. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Figure of Speech
Symbol
Romance
Descriptive Purpose
46. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Diction
Concrete Poetry
Stereotype Character
Atmosphere
47. A word imitating the sound it represents
Onomatopoeia
Denotation
Parody
Flashback
48. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Rhyme
Tone
Couplet
Synecdoche
49. The freedom of a poet in writing
Figure of Speech
Poetic License
Argumentative purpose
Consonance
50. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Dramatic Monologue
Legend
Alliteration
Foreshadowing
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