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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Atmosphere
Denouement
Tragedy
Syntax
2. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Fable
Perspective
Conflict
Style
3. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Surrealism
Anecdote
Antagonist
Comedy
4. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Conflict
Epigram
Irony
Superhero(ine)
5. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Antagonist
Fable
Implication
Assonance
6. Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
Context
Hyperbole
Anthropomorphism
7. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Surrealism
Inference
Paradox
Concrete Poetry
8. An idea that is implied or suggested
Romance
Connotation
Assonance
Organizing Principles
9. Dramatic speech to oneself
Soliloquy
Epigram
Confidant
Anecdote
10. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Soliloquy
Legend
Interior Monologue
Foil
11. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Ode
Complication
Dramatic Monologue
Aside
12. Words mean exactly what they say
Argumentative purpose
Parody
Literal Meaning
First-person
13. 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
Antihero(ine)
Synecdoche
Narrative Purpose
Introduction
14. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Stream of Consciousness
Personification
Literal Meaning
Resolution
15. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Parallelism
Aphorism
Figure of Speech
Euphony
16. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Legend
Characterization
Aphorism
Exposition
17. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Feeling
Resolution
Stereotype Character
Dialect
18. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Theater
Sarcasm
Conclusion
Empathy
19. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Apostrophe
Pathos
Persona
Implication
20. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Organizing Principles
Villain(ess)
Crisis
Stream of Consciousness
21. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Expressive Purpose
Poetic Diction
Perspective
Monologue
22. A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
Tone
Mood
Poetic License
23. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Couplet
Concrete Poetry
Allusion
Mood
24. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Dramatic Monologue
Symbol
Elegy
Euphony
25. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Narrative
Epithet
Idiom
Foil
26. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Context
Romance
Hyperbole
Informative Purpose
27. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Dramatic Monologue
Dialect
Antagonist
Parallelism
28. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Rhythm
Euphemism
Sonnet
Pun
29. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Anachronism
First-person
Antihero(ine)
Alliteration
30. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Onomatopoeia
Soliloquy
Satire
Aside
31. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Epithet
Villain(ess)
Thesis
Plot
32. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Antagonist
Understatement
Pastoral
Metaphor
33. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Falling Action
Theater
Heroic Couplet
34. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Blank Verse
Cliche
Apostrophe
Villain(ess)
35. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Plot
Anachronism
Soliloquy
Stereotype Character
36. Series of events
Figurative Language
Plot
Anthropomorphism
Parable
37. Emotional appeal
Parody
Antithesis
Expository Purpose
Pathos
38. Before the main part or actually story
Allegory
Introduction
Empathy
Climax
39. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Anachronism
Tone
Rhyme
Exciting Force
40. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Figurative Language
Tone
Conflict
Dramatic Monologue
41. Word choice
Monologue
Pastoral
Poetic Syntax
Diction
42. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Confidant
Diction
Genre
Metonymy
43. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Simile
Figurative Language
Legend
Sequence Patterns
44. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Third-person
Free Verse
Rhyme Scheme
Cliche
45. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Irony
Exciting Force
Dramatic Monologue
Anecdote
46. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Iambic Pentameter
Maxim
Descriptive Purpose
Anecdote
47. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Pathos
Figure of Speech
Epithet
Figurative Language
48. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Allegory
Voice
Parable
Farce
49. A word imitating the sound it represents
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
Surrealism
Soliloquy
50. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Couplet
Conflict
Irony
Synecdoche