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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A contradiction or dilemma
Feeling
Paradox
Flashback
Aside
2. Suggestions or hints
Falling Action
Implication
Poetic Diction
Hero(ine)
3. Exaggeration
Assonance
Hyperbole
Sonnet
Organizing Principles
4. A word imitating the sound it represents
Onomatopoeia
Tone
Empathy
Villain(ess)
5. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Free Verse
Parody
Myth
Implication
6. The process by which the writer develops a character
Sarcasm
Thesis
Elegy
Characterization
7. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Euphony
Paradox
Allusion
Legend
8. Presentation of the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Irony
Stream of Consciousness
Iambic Pentameter
Foil
9. Dramatic speech to oneself
Soliloquy
Antagonist
Style
Narrative Purpose
10. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Foil
Informative Purpose
Rhyme
Anecdote
11. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Parody
Informative Purpose
Personification
Aphorism
12. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Ballad
Aside
Foreshadowing
Villain(ess)
13. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Narrative
Romance
Surrealism
Style
14. Humorous imitation
Rhyme
Rhetorical Question
Parody
Anecdote
15. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Pathos
Climax
Denouement
Sequence Patterns
16. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Narrative
Climax
Soliloquy
Consonance
17. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
First-person
Idiom
Alliteration
Allegory
18. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Genre
Sprung rhythm
Aphorism
First-person
19. Conjoining contradictory terms
Conclusion
Monologue
First-person
Oxymoron
20. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Romance
Rising Action
Farce
Descriptive Purpose
21. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Personification
Inference
Style
Euphony
22. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Rhetorical Question
Assonance
Comedy
Free Verse
23. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Third-person
Informative Purpose
Satire
Antithesis
24. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Informative Purpose
Villain(ess)
Poetic Diction
Symbol
25. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Dialect
Conflict
Metaphor
Antagonist
26. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Parable
Rhetorical Question
Blank Verse
Voice
27. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Legend
Dialect
Figurative Language
Anastrophe
28. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Irony
Symbol
Heroic Couplet
Blank Verse
29. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Concrete Poetry
Analogy
Epithet
Symbol
30. The prevailing psychological state
Consonance
Climate
Rhyme Scheme
Parody
31. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Allegory
Parable
Anecdote
Superhero(ine)
32. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Soliloquy
First-person
Imagery
Epigram
33. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Conclusion
Figurative Language
Falling Action
Crisis
34. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Introduction
Idiom
Farce
Tone
35. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Concrete Poetry
Farce
Topic
Villain(ess)
36. A short story teaching a lesson
Expository Purpose
Thesis
Parable
Soliloquy
37. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Sprung rhythm
Ballad
Personification
Sonnet
38. The freedom of a poet in writing
Atmosphere
Poetic License
Heroic Couplet
Comedy
39. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Parable
Concrete Poetry
Realism
Third-person
40. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Crisis
Expository Purpose
Denouement
Surrealism
41. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Theme
Empathy
Analogy
Anachronism
42. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Thesis
Legend
Empathy
Climax
43. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Organizing Principles
Idiom
Stream of Consciousness
Poetic Syntax
44. A final settlement
Conclusion
Anastrophe
Theater
Synecdoche
45. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Pun
Folktale
Exposition
Foil
46. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Figurative Language
Allusion
Stereotype Character
47. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Introduction
Sonnet
Persona
Rising Action
48. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Anastrophe
Rhetorical Question
Climate
49. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Tragedy
Argumentative purpose
Expository Purpose
Allusion
50. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Figurative Language
Dramatic Monologue
Context
Interior Monologue