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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Legend
Onomatopoeia
Denouement
Ballad
2. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Pathos
Monologue
Exposition
Diction
3. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Rising Action
Villain(ess)
Characterization
Foil
4. Dictionary definition of a word
Antagonist
Confidant
Resolution
Denotation
5. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Denotation
Ode
Theme
Narrative
6. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Euphemism
Poetic Diction
Interior Monologue
Atmosphere
7. A message that digresses from the main subject
Connotation
Denouement
Flashback
Aside
8. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Apostrophe
Elegy
Falling Action
Idiom
9. The process by which the writer develops a character
Dramatic Monologue
Complication
Characterization
Empathy
10. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Legend
Ode
Foil
Poetic License
11. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Assonance
Aphorism
Exciting Force
Rhyme Scheme
12. Humorous imitation
Parody
Blank Verse
Personification
Hyperbole
13. The main (good) character
Feeling
Hero(ine)
Characterization
Euphemism
14. A group of lines in a poem
Paradox
Rhythm
Stanza
Exposition
15. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Parallelism
Voice
Foreshadowing
Sarcasm
16. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Epithet
Theme
Pastoral
Apostrophe
17. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Anecdote
Antihero(ine)
Satire
Realism
18. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Tragedy
Metonymy
Hero(ine)
Narrative Purpose
19. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Theater
Feeling
Poetic Syntax
Interior Monologue
20. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Simile
Parody
Analogy
Tone
21. Series of events
First-person
Concrete Poetry
Plot
Theme
22. To display emotions and ideas
Euphony
Surrealism
Elegy
Expressive Purpose
23. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Characterization
Couplet
Theater
Stereotype Character
24. The prevailing psychological state
Dialect
Heroic Couplet
Climate
Exciting Force
25. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Persona
Poetic Diction
Falling Action
Alliteration
26. The perspective from which a story is told
Point of View
Narrative
Consonance
Antithesis
27. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Anecdote
Free Verse
Epigram
Feeling
28. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Aphorism
Poetic Syntax
Pun
Onomatopoeia
29. Presentation of the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Narrative
Stream of Consciousness
Aside
Synecdoche
30. A short story teaching a lesson
Parable
Stereotype Character
Anthropomorphism
Poetic Diction
31. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Heroic Couplet
Euphemism
Thesis
Blank Verse
32. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Context
Descriptive Purpose
33. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Perspective
Argumentative purpose
Euphony
Rhetorical Question
34. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Persuasive Purpose
Surrealism
Feeling
Monologue
35. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Anecdote
Denouement
Anachronism
Monologue
36. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Empathy
Concrete Poetry
Rhetorical Question
Assonance
37. Recurring at regular intervals
Understatement
Rhythm
Dialect
Rhetorical Question
38. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
Antithesis
Tale
Interior Monologue
39. A contradiction or dilemma
Parallelism
Paradox
Rhyme Scheme
Topic
40. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Figure of Speech
Thesis
Style
41. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Comedy
Farce
Inference
Antithesis
42. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Conflict
Pun
Apostrophe
Literal Meaning
43. Dramatic speech to oneself
Cliche
Atmosphere
Soliloquy
Feeling
44. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Euphemism
Simile
Allusion
Connotation
45. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Setting
Organizing Principles
Parallelism
Euphemism
46. Conjoining contradictory terms
Satire
Complication
Paradox
Oxymoron
47. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Soliloquy
Rhyme
Theme
Stanza
48. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Poetic Diction
Denouement
Style
Idiom
49. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Heroic Couplet
Thesis
Theater
Figure of Speech
50. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Stream of Consciousness
Empathy
Poetic Diction