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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Exciting Force
Confidant
Atmosphere
Analogy
2. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Concrete Poetry
Crisis
Poetic Syntax
Understatement
3. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Superhero(ine)
Alliteration
Narrative
Tone
4. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Syntax
Organizing Principles
Third-person
Alliteration
5. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Argumentative purpose
Expository Purpose
Narrative
Metaphor
6. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Surrealism
First-person
Pun
Descriptive Purpose
7. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Flashback
Ballad
Antithesis
Climax
8. The process by which the writer develops a character
Denotation
Paradox
Characterization
Connotation
9. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Confidant
Tragedy
Rising Action
Surrealism
10. To display emotions and ideas
First-person
Parody
Assonance
Expressive Purpose
11. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Assonance
Expository Purpose
Villain(ess)
Narrative Purpose
12. The prevailing psychological state
Characterization
Dialect
Tragedy
Climate
13. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Concrete Poetry
Point of View
Rising Action
Setting
14. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Metaphor
Anastrophe
Couplet
Ballad
15. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Blank Verse
Comedy
Plot
Elegy
16. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Antihero(ine)
Concrete Poetry
Free Verse
Theme
17. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Heroic Couplet
Realism
Persuasive Purpose
Rising Action
18. 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
Tone
Anthropomorphism
Narrative Purpose
Iambic Pentameter
19. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Narrative Purpose
Anastrophe
Epigram
Informative Purpose
20. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Anecdote
Point of View
Assonance
Plot
21. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Fable
Stereotype Character
Persona
Apostrophe
22. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Theater
Literal Meaning
Oxymoron
Analogy
23. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Exposition
Blank Verse
Sarcasm
Epigram
24. Emotional appeal
Syntax
Pathos
Sequence Patterns
Symbol
25. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Persona
Simile
Cliche
Imagery
26. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Paradox
Persona
Perspective
Setting
27. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Analogy
Literal Meaning
Anachronism
Diction
28. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Resolution
Satire
Comedy
Empathy
29. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Fable
Descriptive Purpose
Informative Purpose
Parallelism
30. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Pun
Cliche
Antihero(ine)
Imagery
31. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Informative Purpose
Metaphor
Satire
Feeling
32. Exaggeration
Elegy
Empathy
Hyperbole
Simile
33. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Imagery
Antagonist
Euphemism
Expressive Purpose
34. Word choice
Irony
Diction
Foil
Monologue
35. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Synecdoche
Pastoral
Complication
Foreshadowing
36. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Pastoral
Mood
Anecdote
Epithet
37. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Parallelism
Folktale
Sarcasm
Pathos
38. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Mood
Sprung rhythm
Monologue
Superhero(ine)
39. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Onomatopoeia
Confidant
Flashback
40. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Onomatopoeia
Thesis
Anastrophe
Poetic Syntax
41. Subject
Monologue
Topic
Parallelism
Symbol
42. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Folktale
Rhyme Scheme
Myth
Imagery
43. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Informative Purpose
Idiom
Third-person
Blank Verse
44. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Dramatic Monologue
Voice
Monologue
Imagery
45. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Stanza
Genre
Rhyme Scheme
Third-person
46. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Antithesis
Denouement
Metonymy
Consonance
47. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Exciting Force
Climax
Surrealism
Sprung rhythm
48. 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
Epithet
Alliteration
Synecdoche
Parallelism
49. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Denouement
Literal Meaning
Argumentative purpose
Assonance
50. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Topic
Idiom
Pathos
Dramatic Monologue