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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
First-person
Fable
Argumentative purpose
Context
2. Word choice
Antihero(ine)
Diction
Conflict
Ballad
3. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Voice
Rhythm
Diction
Foil
4. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Denouement
Figure of Speech
Conflict
Flashback
5. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Interior Monologue
Voice
Conclusion
Anthropomorphism
6. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Farce
Narrative Purpose
Narrative
Cliche
7. Emotional appeal
Pathos
Genre
Thesis
Legend
8. A group of lines in a poem
Epigram
Blank Verse
Climax
Stanza
9. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Poetic Syntax
Metaphor
Conclusion
Rhyme
10. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Tone
Fable
Metaphor
Concrete Poetry
11. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Inference
Parody
Simile
Irony
12. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Descriptive Purpose
Rising Action
Foil
Free Verse
13. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Realism
Persuasive Purpose
Persona
Theater
14. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Euphony
Irony
Theater
Atmosphere
15. Words mean exactly what they say
Organizing Principles
Literal Meaning
Metonymy
Conclusion
16. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Ballad
Surrealism
Informative Purpose
Mood
17. Point of view
Comedy
Argumentative purpose
Perspective
Symbol
18. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Consonance
Informative Purpose
Euphony
Allegory
19. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Epithet
Sarcasm
Symbol
Euphemism
20. Series of events
Onomatopoeia
Poetic Diction
Plot
Anthropomorphism
21. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Stereotype Character
Concrete Poetry
Empathy
Aphorism
22. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Elegy
Comedy
Poetic Syntax
Figure of Speech
23. A play on words
Pun
Idiom
Climax
Mood
24. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Epigram
Syntax
Surrealism
Conflict
25. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Rhetorical Question
Personification
Maxim
Connotation
26. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Personification
Antihero(ine)
Ode
Expressive Purpose
27. The process by which the writer develops a character
Personification
Characterization
First-person
Hero(ine)
28. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Denotation
Parallelism
Oxymoron
Figure of Speech
29. A short story teaching a lesson
Heroic Couplet
Personification
Myth
Parable
30. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Villain(ess)
Realism
Epigram
Persona
31. A final settlement
Legend
Conclusion
Rhyme
First-person
32. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Romance
Feeling
Personification
Heroic Couplet
33. A word imitating the sound it represents
Onomatopoeia
Voice
Realism
Ode
34. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Sequence Patterns
Pathos
Sonnet
Expository Purpose
35. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Sarcasm
Myth
Empathy
Anecdote
36. A contradiction or dilemma
Falling Action
Sonnet
Rhyme Scheme
Paradox
37. Before the main part or actually story
Confidant
Apostrophe
Denotation
Introduction
38. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Syntax
Allegory
Inference
Consonance
39. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Empathy
Organizing Principles
Style
Pastoral
40. The prevailing psychological state
Free Verse
Epithet
Climate
Interior Monologue
41. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Informative Purpose
Oxymoron
Sonnet
Pastoral
42. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Thesis
Inference
Rhyme
Parable
43. A message that digresses from the main subject
Syntax
Irony
Expository Purpose
Aside
44. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Parody
Blank Verse
Dramatic Monologue
Free Verse
45. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Introduction
Irony
Legend
Persuasive Purpose
46. The final actions or solution of the plot
Dramatic Monologue
Resolution
Anthropomorphism
Implication
47. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Dialect
Cliche
Romance
Heroic Couplet
48. Dramatic speech to oneself
Flashback
Oxymoron
Soliloquy
Dialect
49. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Symbol
Myth
Thesis
Tale
50. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Apostrophe
Metonymy
Epithet
Diction