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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Organizing Principles
Rhyme Scheme
Anecdote
Persona
2. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Narrative Purpose
Surrealism
Antihero(ine)
Organizing Principles
3. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Persuasive Purpose
Conflict
Persona
Complication
4. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Feeling
Literal Meaning
Falling Action
5. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Tragedy
Elegy
Descriptive Purpose
Inference
6. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Connotation
Flashback
Assonance
Third-person
7. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Voice
Realism
Irony
Sarcasm
8. A final settlement
Assonance
Maxim
Rhyme
Conclusion
9. An idea that is implied or suggested
Characterization
Connotation
Maxim
Genre
10. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Personification
Context
Stream of Consciousness
Empathy
11. Conjoining contradictory terms
Realism
Introduction
Atmosphere
Oxymoron
12. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Metaphor
Maxim
Anachronism
Antithesis
13. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Apostrophe
Idiom
Monologue
First-person
14. The perspective from which a story is told
Point of View
Tragedy
Implication
Exposition
15. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Flashback
Tone
Comedy
Context
16. 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
Hero(ine)
Foil
Iambic Pentameter
Metonymy
17. Exaggeration
Antithesis
Ballad
Rhetorical Question
Hyperbole
18. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Flashback
Descriptive Purpose
Aphorism
First-person
19. To display emotions and ideas
Anachronism
Informative Purpose
Epithet
Expressive Purpose
20. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Free Verse
Perspective
Blank Verse
Heroic Couplet
21. Before the main part or actually story
Introduction
Topic
Anthropomorphism
Myth
22. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Folktale
Myth
Foil
23. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Irony
Comedy
Monologue
Anecdote
24. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Euphony
Aphorism
Assonance
Satire
25. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Irony
Plot
Conclusion
Empathy
26. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Superhero(ine)
Narrative Purpose
Atmosphere
Context
27. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Foreshadowing
Aside
Voice
Informative Purpose
28. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Narrative Purpose
Sonnet
Figurative Language
Allegory
29. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Implication
Symbol
Climax
Genre
30. Presentation of the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Argumentative purpose
Realism
Romance
Stream of Consciousness
31. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Stanza
Irony
Ballad
Heroic Couplet
32. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Rhetorical Question
Romance
Pathos
Antithesis
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
Synecdoche
Pastoral
Iambic Pentameter
Foil
34. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Interior Monologue
Oxymoron
Concrete Poetry
Tale
35. (tall): short piece of fiction
Antihero(ine)
Tale
Stereotype Character
Epithet
36. 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
Mood
Synecdoche
Anastrophe
Assonance
37. A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
Setting
Organizing Principles
Anecdote
38. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Perspective
Poetic Syntax
Resolution
Dialect
39. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Realism
Figurative Language
Villain(ess)
Style
40. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Flashback
Mood
Rhythm
Tone
41. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Foreshadowing
Interior Monologue
Epigram
First-person
42. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Hyperbole
Superhero(ine)
Pathos
Descriptive Purpose
43. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Superhero(ine)
Persona
Idiom
Poetic License
44. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Point of View
Parallelism
Persuasive Purpose
Exposition
45. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Pastoral
Simile
Symbol
Expository Purpose
46. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Sequence Patterns
Feeling
Flashback
Dialect
47. Words mean exactly what they say
Tragedy
Metonymy
Implication
Literal Meaning
48. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Descriptive Purpose
Allusion
Parable
Connotation
49. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Stream of Consciousness
Consonance
Villain(ess)
Dialect
50. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Iambic Pentameter
Exciting Force
Poetic Diction
Empathy