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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Rhyme
Metonymy
Euphony
Personification
2. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Rising Action
Connotation
Resolution
Pun
3. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Descriptive Purpose
Figure of Speech
Poetic Syntax
Ballad
4. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Sonnet
Context
Theater
Expressive Purpose
5. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Blank Verse
Irony
Falling Action
Syntax
6. A contradiction or dilemma
Feeling
Diction
Paradox
Dialect
7. A final settlement
Complication
Style
Parable
Conclusion
8. The main (good) character
Alliteration
Heroic Couplet
Comedy
Hero(ine)
9. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Expressive Purpose
Anastrophe
Soliloquy
Simile
10. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Crisis
Blank Verse
Perspective
Dramatic Monologue
11. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Anecdote
Apostrophe
Sonnet
Simile
12. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Conflict
Heroic Couplet
Exposition
Tale
13. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Rhyme
Feeling
Allegory
Iambic Pentameter
14. Dictionary definition of a word
Pastoral
Falling Action
Denotation
Understatement
15. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Tragedy
Alliteration
Dramatic Monologue
16. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Villain(ess)
Literal Meaning
Imagery
Sprung rhythm
17. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Poetic Diction
Expository Purpose
Personification
Tale
18. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Dialect
Narrative
Setting
Tragedy
19. 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
Sonnet
Conclusion
Oxymoron
Stereotype Character
20. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Superhero(ine)
Sequence Patterns
Dramatic Monologue
Antihero(ine)
21. 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
Characterization
Villain(ess)
Synecdoche
Falling Action
22. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Climax
Exciting Force
Figurative Language
Alliteration
23. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Monologue
Iambic Pentameter
Anthropomorphism
Cliche
24. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Climax
Topic
Fable
Alliteration
25. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Rising Action
Dramatic Monologue
Informative Purpose
Paradox
26. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Perspective
Informative Purpose
Poetic Syntax
Exciting Force
27. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
First-person
Epigram
Crisis
Narrative Purpose
28. A group of lines in a poem
Euphemism
Context
Stanza
Free Verse
29. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Parallelism
Confidant
Understatement
Tragedy
30. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Diction
Denotation
Symbol
Characterization
31. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Symbol
Persona
Poetic Diction
Descriptive Purpose
32. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Sequence Patterns
Myth
Assonance
Characterization
33. A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents - each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
Point of View
Iambic Pentameter
Sprung rhythm
Falling Action
34. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
Poetic Syntax
Flashback
Expository Purpose
35. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Climax
Cliche
Informative Purpose
Topic
36. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Soliloquy
Implication
Romance
Euphemism
37. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Plot
Resolution
Concrete Poetry
Satire
38. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Diction
Stanza
Elegy
Pastoral
39. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Exposition
Tragedy
Apostrophe
Confidant
40. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Metonymy
Epigram
Myth
41. Subject
Expressive Purpose
Introduction
Ballad
Topic
42. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Topic
Voice
Anecdote
Complication
43. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Irony
Metonymy
Metaphor
Anastrophe
44. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Genre
Climax
Resolution
Voice
45. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Surrealism
Genre
Sonnet
Third-person
46. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Epithet
Tone
Consonance
Anthropomorphism
47. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Plot
Free Verse
Stream of Consciousness
Monologue
48. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Parody
Theater
Crisis
Romance
49. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Conclusion
Anthropomorphism
Blank Verse
Allegory
50. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Idiom
Concrete Poetry
Context
Denotation