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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Denouement
Interior Monologue
Iambic Pentameter
Sprung rhythm
2. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Irony
Atmosphere
Style
Exposition
3. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Allusion
Mood
Narrative Purpose
Syntax
4. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Couplet
Tale
Iambic Pentameter
Parable
5. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Antihero(ine)
Concrete Poetry
6. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Assonance
Ballad
Apostrophe
Connotation
7. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Characterization
Tone
Narrative Purpose
Confidant
8. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Legend
Tone
Diction
Interior Monologue
9. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Sonnet
Comedy
Context
Blank Verse
10. (tall): short piece of fiction
Hyperbole
Feeling
Tale
Sonnet
11. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Exposition
Euphony
Oxymoron
Anthropomorphism
12. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Simile
Rhythm
Anecdote
First-person
13. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Mood
Narrative
Figure of Speech
Alliteration
14. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Alliteration
Consonance
Folktale
Aside
15. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Surrealism
Thesis
Characterization
Expressive Purpose
16. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Antithesis
Feeling
Narrative
Complication
17. Dramatic speech to oneself
Argumentative purpose
Analogy
Soliloquy
Monologue
18. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Poetic Syntax
Rhetorical Question
Denotation
Anachronism
19. 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
Aside
Sarcasm
Synecdoche
Cliche
20. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Tragedy
Resolution
Elegy
Foreshadowing
21. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Genre
Anastrophe
Symbol
Monologue
22. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Epigram
Expressive Purpose
Sarcasm
Empathy
23. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Exciting Force
Expository Purpose
Sprung rhythm
Ballad
24. The freedom of a poet in writing
Sonnet
Narrative
Synecdoche
Poetic License
25. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Informative Purpose
Exciting Force
Theme
Introduction
26. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Analogy
Sequence Patterns
Organizing Principles
Third-person
27. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Voice
Idiom
Anecdote
Falling Action
28. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Pastoral
Sonnet
Ballad
Tragedy
29. Conjoining contradictory terms
Blank Verse
First-person
Oxymoron
Euphemism
30. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Inference
Hero(ine)
Irony
Figure of Speech
31. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Topic
Monologue
Tragedy
Figure of Speech
32. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Setting
Epithet
Iambic Pentameter
Informative Purpose
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
Atmosphere
Dramatic Monologue
Epigram
Metonymy
34. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Assonance
Stanza
Syntax
Sarcasm
35. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Elegy
Literal Meaning
Context
Metonymy
36. Subject
Rhyme Scheme
Understatement
Personification
Topic
37. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Persuasive Purpose
Anthropomorphism
Soliloquy
Rising Action
38. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Climate
Syntax
Heroic Couplet
Tone
39. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Rising Action
Allegory
Superhero(ine)
Falling Action
40. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Imagery
Rhyme Scheme
Myth
Monologue
41. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Metaphor
Connotation
Realism
Myth
42. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Expressive Purpose
Analogy
Elegy
Cliche
43. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Dramatic Monologue
Narrative
Poetic Diction
Alliteration
44. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Poetic License
Paradox
Climax
Antagonist
45. Series of events
Parable
Plot
Perspective
Hyperbole
46. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Figure of Speech
Literal Meaning
Poetic Diction
Personification
47. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Complication
Diction
Argumentative purpose
Topic
48. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Concrete Poetry
Exposition
Falling Action
Ode
49. To display emotions and ideas
Antihero(ine)
Expressive Purpose
Genre
Inference
50. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Topic
Point of View
Euphony
Tragedy