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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Cliche
Heroic Couplet
Fable
Stanza
2. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Poetic Syntax
Assonance
Pastoral
Parallelism
3. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Rhetorical Question
Complication
Dialect
Ballad
4. Recurring at regular intervals
Superhero(ine)
Maxim
Rhythm
Oxymoron
5. The final actions or solution of the plot
Resolution
Sequence Patterns
Free Verse
Realism
6. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Anachronism
Denouement
Myth
Elegy
7. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Legend
Farce
Analogy
Pastoral
8. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Resolution
Rhyme Scheme
Euphony
Paradox
9. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Rising Action
Stream of Consciousness
Pastoral
Surrealism
10. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Hyperbole
Feeling
Style
Assonance
11. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Antagonist
Voice
Setting
Apostrophe
12. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Monologue
Parallelism
Ode
Denotation
13. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Pastoral
Iambic Pentameter
Narrative
Exposition
14. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Literal Meaning
Voice
Expository Purpose
Parallelism
15. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
Theater
Narrative Purpose
Assonance
16. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Figure of Speech
Rhyme
Anthropomorphism
Organizing Principles
17. Exaggeration
Couplet
Apostrophe
Realism
Hyperbole
18. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Parallelism
Personification
Voice
Persona
19. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Pathos
Rhyme Scheme
Ode
Empathy
20. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
First-person
Persuasive Purpose
Anecdote
Denouement
21. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Interior Monologue
Cliche
Sarcasm
22. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Superhero(ine)
Comedy
Confidant
Paradox
23. A play on words
Plot
Pun
Myth
Epithet
24. Series of events
Anthropomorphism
Foil
Realism
Plot
25. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Personification
Satire
Sequence Patterns
Assonance
26. Suggestions or hints
Falling Action
Expository Purpose
Simile
Implication
27. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Figurative Language
Mood
Legend
Heroic Couplet
28. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Denouement
Argumentative purpose
Confidant
Foil
29. Before the main part or actually story
Dialect
Anachronism
Soliloquy
Introduction
30. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Villain(ess)
Myth
Exposition
Figure of Speech
31. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Antithesis
Confidant
Complication
Cliche
32. Humorous imitation
Concrete Poetry
Anachronism
Monologue
Parody
33. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Blank Verse
Confidant
Cliche
Exciting Force
34. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Theme
Analogy
Pastoral
35. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Comedy
Hyperbole
Surrealism
Symbol
36. A word imitating the sound it represents
Synecdoche
Onomatopoeia
Euphony
Complication
37. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Informative Purpose
Anachronism
Aside
Metonymy
38. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Poetic License
Style
Farce
Foil
39. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Free Verse
Persuasive Purpose
Epigram
Characterization
40. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Syntax
Epithet
Expository Purpose
Irony
41. 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
Anthropomorphism
Metonymy
Argumentative purpose
42. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Figurative Language
Elegy
Sarcasm
Theater
43. The freedom of a poet in writing
Foil
Comedy
Myth
Poetic License
44. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Sarcasm
Climax
Expressive Purpose
Superhero(ine)
45. The process by which the writer develops a character
Third-person
Rhyme Scheme
Monologue
Characterization
46. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Foreshadowing
Poetic License
Third-person
Assonance
47. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
Pathos
Tragedy
Simile
48. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Pastoral
Oxymoron
Anastrophe
Stereotype Character
49. A message that digresses from the main subject
Thesis
Cliche
Aside
Parody
50. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Figurative Language
Sarcasm
Onomatopoeia
Comedy
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