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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Euphony
Theme
Denouement
Point of View
2. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Expository Purpose
Satire
Stanza
Inference
3. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Romance
Symbol
Monologue
Exciting Force
4. A final settlement
Conclusion
Epithet
Theater
Rhyme
5. An idea that is implied or suggested
Pun
Connotation
Epigram
Antagonist
6. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Soliloquy
Pun
Fable
Rhyme Scheme
7. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Connotation
Monologue
Literal Meaning
Parallelism
8. Subject
Confidant
Topic
Surrealism
Apostrophe
9. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Third-person
Foreshadowing
Rhyme
Resolution
10. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Symbol
Parallelism
Apostrophe
Persona
11. A contradiction or dilemma
Organizing Principles
Comedy
Narrative
Paradox
12. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Folktale
Mood
Conclusion
Monologue
13. The perspective from which a story is told
Context
Apostrophe
Imagery
Point of View
14. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Allegory
Third-person
Resolution
Feeling
15. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Comedy
Paradox
Stream of Consciousness
Fable
16. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Persuasive Purpose
Foil
Sonnet
Imagery
17. 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
Blank Verse
Complication
Euphemism
Synecdoche
18. Dramatic speech to oneself
Stanza
Soliloquy
Epithet
Ode
19. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Context
Superhero(ine)
Genre
Exposition
20. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Poetic License
Setting
Symbol
Tone
21. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Ballad
Dramatic Monologue
Hyperbole
Organizing Principles
22. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Apostrophe
Onomatopoeia
Idiom
Thesis
23. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Conflict
Elegy
Simile
Parable
24. The freedom of a poet in writing
Rhythm
Free Verse
Idiom
Poetic License
25. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Tragedy
Voice
Heroic Couplet
Surrealism
26. The prevailing psychological state
Realism
Poetic License
Comedy
Climate
27. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Climate
Fable
Stereotype Character
Anachronism
28. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Imagery
Interior Monologue
Apostrophe
Epithet
29. A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
Allusion
Parallelism
Antithesis
30. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Anthropomorphism
Allegory
Foil
Analogy
31. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Denouement
Pastoral
Metonymy
Poetic Syntax
32. A message that digresses from the main subject
Aside
Narrative
Climax
Confidant
33. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Free Verse
Maxim
Realism
Denouement
34. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Paradox
Setting
Denotation
Couplet
35. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Epithet
Stanza
Anthropomorphism
Topic
36. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Denouement
Context
Myth
Couplet
37. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Introduction
Dramatic Monologue
Narrative
Crisis
38. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Figure of Speech
Setting
Foil
Theme
39. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Euphony
Foreshadowing
Aside
Tragedy
40. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Exciting Force
Personification
Romance
Climax
41. Conjoining contradictory terms
Epithet
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Allegory
42. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Implication
Synecdoche
Feeling
Resolution
43. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Dialect
Symbol
Allusion
Euphony
44. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Figurative Language
Narrative Purpose
Empathy
Aphorism
45. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Simile
Parody
Sonnet
Interior Monologue
46. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Exciting Force
Folktale
Free Verse
Legend
47. The final actions or solution of the plot
Consonance
Parallelism
Resolution
Idiom
48. Word choice
Climate
First-person
Dialect
Diction
49. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Anecdote
Hyperbole
Rising Action
Informative Purpose
50. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Sarcasm
Simile
Narrative Purpose
Rhyme