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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Foreshadowing
Symbol
Hyperbole
Stanza
2. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Metaphor
Persuasive Purpose
Foil
Expository Purpose
3. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Maxim
Villain(ess)
Ode
Fable
4. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Interior Monologue
Resolution
Allegory
Understatement
5. The perspective from which a story is told
Point of View
Tone
Free Verse
Symbol
6. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Anthropomorphism
Oxymoron
Anachronism
Crisis
7. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Persona
Rhyme
Stereotype Character
Characterization
8. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Figurative Language
Persuasive Purpose
Denouement
Ode
9. Before the main part or actually story
Irony
Introduction
Metaphor
Antagonist
10. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Atmosphere
Diction
Ode
Ballad
11. Words mean exactly what they say
Anastrophe
Rhetorical Question
Literal Meaning
Crisis
12. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
Context
Idiom
Conclusion
13. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Connotation
Poetic Syntax
Flashback
Narrative Purpose
14. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Rhyme
Persona
Parallelism
Hyperbole
15. A play on words
Analogy
Figurative Language
Pun
Exposition
16. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Free Verse
Diction
Anecdote
Aside
17. Series of events
Tragedy
Informative Purpose
Plot
Perspective
18. 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
Stereotype Character
Hero(ine)
Topic
Pun
19. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Rising Action
Interior Monologue
Maxim
Concrete Poetry
20. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Euphony
Fable
Descriptive Purpose
Rising Action
21. Recurring at regular intervals
Surrealism
Villain(ess)
Point of View
Rhythm
22. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Maxim
Sequence Patterns
Atmosphere
Superhero(ine)
23. A short story teaching a lesson
Anastrophe
Parable
Poetic License
Allegory
24. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Complication
Thesis
Apostrophe
Personification
25. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Tragedy
Pun
Antagonist
Introduction
26. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Connotation
Couplet
Rising Action
Narrative Purpose
27. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Epithet
Anastrophe
Figure of Speech
Point of View
28. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Climate
Euphemism
Descriptive Purpose
Surrealism
29. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Genre
Complication
Rhetorical Question
Anecdote
30. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Couplet
Imagery
Empathy
Poetic Syntax
31. The main (good) character
Hero(ine)
Syntax
Realism
Style
32. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Monologue
Elegy
Denouement
Implication
33. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Dialect
Metaphor
Genre
Apostrophe
34. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Surrealism
Ode
Parody
Symbol
35. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Perspective
Figurative Language
Style
Falling Action
36. A message that digresses from the main subject
Free Verse
Dramatic Monologue
Pun
Aside
37. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Interior Monologue
Anthropomorphism
Assonance
Persuasive Purpose
38. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Metonymy
Farce
Confidant
Empathy
39. Dramatic speech to oneself
Interior Monologue
Soliloquy
Personification
Mood
40. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Onomatopoeia
Epigram
Flashback
Poetic License
41. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Feeling
Hero(ine)
Antithesis
Soliloquy
42. 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
Climate
Synecdoche
Superhero(ine)
Couplet
43. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Parody
Rhetorical Question
Expressive Purpose
Aphorism
44. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Cliche
Context
Comedy
Plot
45. The prevailing psychological state
Climate
Consonance
Surrealism
Antithesis
46. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Third-person
Villain(ess)
Sonnet
Heroic Couplet
47. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Conflict
Diction
Organizing Principles
Satire
48. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Poetic Syntax
Iambic Pentameter
Dramatic Monologue
Ballad
49. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Myth
Villain(ess)
Epigram
Denouement
50. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Parallelism
Climate
Blank Verse
Myth