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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Aphorism
Diction
Characterization
Genre
2. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Apostrophe
Exciting Force
Paradox
Simile
3. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Anthropomorphism
Villain(ess)
Rhythm
Antihero(ine)
4. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Point of View
Farce
Genre
Narrative Purpose
5. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Epigram
Antihero(ine)
Foreshadowing
Literal Meaning
6. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Thesis
Romance
Voice
Stereotype Character
7. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Sarcasm
Persona
Syntax
Tragedy
8. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Antagonist
Climax
Feeling
Alliteration
9. A play on words
Third-person
Pun
First-person
Setting
10. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Atmosphere
Voice
Satire
Elegy
11. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Hero(ine)
Pathos
Fable
Couplet
12. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Satire
Farce
Tale
Antagonist
13. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Theater
Antithesis
Analogy
Introduction
14. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Legend
Tone
Metaphor
Denotation
15. A group of lines in a poem
Expressive Purpose
Stanza
Rhyme Scheme
Metaphor
16. A message that digresses from the main subject
Tone
Aside
Stream of Consciousness
Epigram
17. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Exposition
Tone
Feeling
Alliteration
18. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Imagery
Iambic Pentameter
Confidant
Conclusion
19. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Crisis
Anastrophe
Context
Poetic License
20. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Third-person
Informative Purpose
Anecdote
Cliche
21. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Conclusion
Syntax
Dramatic Monologue
Assonance
22. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Interior Monologue
Conflict
Comedy
Folktale
23. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Poetic Diction
Hyperbole
Blank Verse
Inference
24. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Symbol
Oxymoron
Myth
Aside
25. 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
Ballad
Comedy
Stereotype Character
Myth
26. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Confidant
Crisis
Descriptive Purpose
Anecdote
27. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Epigram
Rhythm
Cliche
Empathy
28. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Foreshadowing
Anastrophe
Complication
Crisis
29. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Tale
Climax
Theme
Personification
30. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Literal Meaning
Resolution
Apostrophe
Alliteration
31. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Setting
Pathos
Maxim
Persona
32. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Expressive Purpose
Superhero(ine)
Pastoral
Consonance
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
Iambic Pentameter
Euphony
Metonymy
Sarcasm
34. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Allegory
Style
Mood
Crisis
35. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Euphony
Antagonist
Setting
Literal Meaning
36. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Setting
Idiom
Third-person
Climate
37. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Ballad
Sequence Patterns
Iambic Pentameter
Allusion
38. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
Stream of Consciousness
Third-person
Poetic Syntax
39. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Heroic Couplet
Inference
Rhyme Scheme
Hyperbole
40. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Monologue
Feeling
Rhyme
Style
41. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Dialect
Hyperbole
Epigram
Free Verse
42. 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
Synecdoche
Pastoral
Sarcasm
Dramatic Monologue
43. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Aside
Inference
Rhyme Scheme
Epithet
44. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Syntax
First-person
Narrative
Surrealism
45. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Resolution
Ballad
Crisis
Onomatopoeia
46. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Rising Action
Informative Purpose
Concrete Poetry
Heroic Couplet
47. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Alliteration
Style
Heroic Couplet
Tone
48. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Antithesis
Couplet
Poetic License
Denouement
49. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Parody
Symbol
Free Verse
Epithet
50. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Soliloquy
Allegory
Argumentative purpose
Exciting Force
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