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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Point of View
Comedy
Epithet
Analogy
2. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Descriptive Purpose
Symbol
Rhetorical Question
Consonance
3. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Pathos
Euphemism
Thesis
Satire
4. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Narrative
Inference
Sarcasm
Apostrophe
5. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Sprung rhythm
Idiom
Myth
Free Verse
6. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Persona
Resolution
Concrete Poetry
Sprung rhythm
7. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Heroic Couplet
Aside
Allegory
Interior Monologue
8. The final actions or solution of the plot
Resolution
Implication
Tragedy
Complication
9. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Narrative Purpose
Imagery
Confidant
Anachronism
10. Series of events
Aphorism
Sonnet
Myth
Plot
11. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Parable
Descriptive Purpose
Pun
Climate
12. Exaggeration
Crisis
Topic
Hyperbole
Thesis
13. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Persuasive Purpose
Maxim
Metaphor
Literal Meaning
14. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Stereotype Character
Third-person
Feeling
Euphemism
15. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Descriptive Purpose
Theme
Irony
Tale
16. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Figurative Language
Understatement
Imagery
Personification
17. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Metonymy
Rhythm
Figurative Language
Stanza
18. The process by which the writer develops a character
Characterization
Organizing Principles
Informative Purpose
Stream of Consciousness
19. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Argumentative purpose
Ballad
Sarcasm
Exciting Force
20. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Satire
Aside
Confidant
Complication
21. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Anthropomorphism
Dialect
Irony
Denotation
22. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Narrative
Alliteration
Falling Action
Ballad
23. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Iambic Pentameter
Parody
Crisis
Connotation
24. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Understatement
Confidant
Falling Action
Metonymy
25. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
First-person
Style
Tone
Metaphor
26. Point of view
Perspective
Rhyme Scheme
Poetic Diction
Apostrophe
27. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Foil
Interior Monologue
Falling Action
Paradox
28. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
Foreshadowing
Euphony
Syntax
29. Words mean exactly what they say
Literal Meaning
Ode
Connotation
Concrete Poetry
30. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Satire
Cliche
Anecdote
Sprung rhythm
31. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Complication
Concrete Poetry
Theater
Introduction
32. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Plot
Figurative Language
Persuasive Purpose
Pastoral
33. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Sequence Patterns
Oxymoron
Connotation
34. Subject
Topic
Allusion
Context
Conflict
35. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Figure of Speech
Implication
Romance
36. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Exposition
Fable
Figurative Language
Idiom
37. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Feeling
Irony
Narrative Purpose
Allusion
38. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Blank Verse
Interior Monologue
Poetic Diction
Villain(ess)
39. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Imagery
Feeling
Euphemism
Anastrophe
40. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Tone
Euphony
Soliloquy
Simile
41. (tall): short piece of fiction
Tale
Myth
Folktale
Foil
42. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Denouement
Anastrophe
Tragedy
Farce
43. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Denotation
Rising Action
Legend
Satire
44. Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
Foil
Hyperbole
Point of View
45. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Anthropomorphism
Conflict
First-person
Couplet
46. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Sprung rhythm
Antithesis
Assonance
Cliche
47. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Organizing Principles
Pathos
Rhythm
Realism
48. The perspective from which a story is told
Point of View
Interior Monologue
Epigram
Synecdoche
49. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Denouement
Fable
Blank Verse
Conclusion
50. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Comedy
Metaphor
Expository Purpose
Soliloquy