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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Thesis
Pun
Climate
Figure of Speech
2. Word choice
Diction
Mood
Perspective
Persuasive Purpose
3. Dictionary definition of a word
Analogy
First-person
Denotation
Rhythm
4. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Fable
Theme
Flashback
Setting
5. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Surrealism
Plot
Complication
Romance
6. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Soliloquy
Epigram
Conflict
Theater
7. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Apostrophe
Symbol
Rhyme Scheme
Free Verse
8. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Euphemism
Assonance
Pastoral
Satire
9. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Folktale
Genre
Allusion
Feeling
10. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Poetic Diction
Style
Iambic Pentameter
Myth
11. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Antihero(ine)
Descriptive Purpose
Theme
Organizing Principles
12. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Aphorism
Assonance
Expository Purpose
Dialect
13. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Aphorism
Metaphor
Sonnet
Allegory
14. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Rhetorical Question
Narrative
Parable
Sarcasm
15. A short story teaching a lesson
Topic
Realism
Context
Parable
16. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Allegory
Anecdote
Alliteration
Satire
17. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Ode
Narrative Purpose
Satire
Inference
18. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Parody
First-person
Argumentative purpose
Setting
19. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Consonance
Ode
20. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Soliloquy
Synecdoche
Tale
Apostrophe
21. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Pathos
Anthropomorphism
Sarcasm
Inference
22. The freedom of a poet in writing
Apostrophe
Feeling
Poetic Diction
Poetic License
23. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Denouement
Symbol
Anastrophe
Tragedy
24. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Theater
Interior Monologue
Syntax
Sprung rhythm
25. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Surrealism
Sonnet
Superhero(ine)
Romance
26. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Denouement
Anthropomorphism
Farce
Fable
27. Series of events
Figure of Speech
Metonymy
Plot
Dramatic Monologue
28. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Point of View
Third-person
Flashback
Soliloquy
29. Emotional appeal
Point of View
Pathos
Diction
Euphemism
30. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Assonance
Confidant
Falling Action
Antithesis
31. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Rhetorical Question
Sonnet
Expressive Purpose
Denotation
32. 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
Crisis
Metonymy
Sequence Patterns
Allusion
33. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Style
Anecdote
Parody
Anachronism
34. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Surrealism
Apostrophe
Narrative Purpose
Figurative Language
35. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Surrealism
Foreshadowing
Analogy
Epithet
36. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Narrative
Anastrophe
Couplet
37. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Mood
Alliteration
Exciting Force
38. Exaggeration
Stream of Consciousness
Diction
Anecdote
Hyperbole
39. 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
Epigram
Villain(ess)
Alliteration
Stereotype Character
40. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Genre
Figurative Language
Interior Monologue
Introduction
41. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Folktale
Theater
Romance
Paradox
42. Conjoining contradictory terms
Poetic Syntax
Oxymoron
Plot
Style
43. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Imagery
Anachronism
Farce
Characterization
44. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Perspective
Topic
Apostrophe
Climax
45. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Euphony
Thesis
Plot
Ode
46. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Hyperbole
Voice
Feeling
Antagonist
47. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Concrete Poetry
Anecdote
Superhero(ine)
Rhyme
48. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Foreshadowing
Concrete Poetry
Sequence Patterns
Maxim
49. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Syntax
Pastoral
Parable
Villain(ess)
50. Point of view
Dramatic Monologue
Mood
Argumentative purpose
Perspective
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