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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Dialect
Parallelism
Descriptive Purpose
Genre
2. Conjoining contradictory terms
Persuasive Purpose
Dialect
Oxymoron
Anecdote
3. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Literal Meaning
Exposition
Rhyme
Epigram
4. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Allegory
Imagery
Argumentative purpose
Plot
5. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Understatement
Anachronism
Interior Monologue
Connotation
6. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Iambic Pentameter
Pun
Inference
Monologue
7. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Mood
Anachronism
Figurative Language
Expository Purpose
8. 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
Genre
Foreshadowing
Comedy
Synecdoche
9. The prevailing psychological state
Parable
Exciting Force
Complication
Climate
10. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Epigram
Monologue
Context
Genre
11. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Informative Purpose
Climax
Symbol
Folktale
12. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Foil
Sprung rhythm
Complication
Theme
13. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Ode
Heroic Couplet
Exposition
Anthropomorphism
14. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Metaphor
Style
Rhetorical Question
Surrealism
15. A short story teaching a lesson
Parable
Plot
Voice
Oxymoron
16. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Theater
Confidant
Couplet
Myth
17. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Third-person
Synecdoche
Plot
Anecdote
18. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Comedy
Maxim
Rhythm
Irony
19. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Analogy
Personification
20. A contradiction or dilemma
Conflict
Epithet
Antihero(ine)
Paradox
21. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Interior Monologue
Apostrophe
Characterization
Imagery
22. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Introduction
Atmosphere
Tragedy
Satire
23. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Mood
Pathos
Narrative
24. Exaggeration
Cliche
Hyperbole
Persuasive Purpose
Satire
25. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Hero(ine)
Syntax
Superhero(ine)
Anachronism
26. Suggestions or hints
Implication
Poetic License
Rhyme Scheme
Hyperbole
27. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Farce
Ballad
Heroic Couplet
Satire
28. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Apostrophe
Ode
Comedy
Realism
29. The freedom of a poet in writing
Synecdoche
Imagery
Poetic License
Anecdote
30. Before the main part or actually story
Consonance
Elegy
Introduction
Feeling
31. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Atmosphere
Monologue
Antithesis
Tale
32. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Feeling
Metonymy
Sonnet
Blank Verse
33. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Maxim
Expository Purpose
Satire
Simile
34. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Comedy
Euphony
Exciting Force
Aside
35. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Farce
Couplet
Poetic Diction
Simile
36. A play on words
Anthropomorphism
Aside
Sonnet
Pun
37. Emotional appeal
Pathos
Allegory
Theater
Assonance
38. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Maxim
Organizing Principles
Personification
Climate
39. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Oxymoron
Sonnet
Realism
Tragedy
40. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Antihero(ine)
Characterization
Theater
Figure of Speech
41. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Parable
Apostrophe
Persuasive Purpose
Feeling
42. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Third-person
Parody
Conflict
Euphony
43. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Consonance
Poetic Syntax
Style
Comedy
44. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Realism
Euphemism
Figurative Language
Concrete Poetry
45. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Poetic License
Persona
Consonance
Parable
46. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Anastrophe
Antagonist
Introduction
Stanza
47. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Atmosphere
Comedy
Dialect
Sonnet
48. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Rising Action
Foil
Organizing Principles
Denotation
49. A message that digresses from the main subject
Aside
Persuasive Purpose
Antithesis
Heroic Couplet
50. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Euphemism
Antithesis
Concrete Poetry
Voice