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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A play on words
Pun
Antagonist
Antihero(ine)
First-person
2. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Sonnet
Realism
Parable
Tale
3. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Plot
Poetic Syntax
Oxymoron
Tone
4. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Villain(ess)
Antagonist
Comedy
Dramatic Monologue
5. 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
Climax
Introduction
Consonance
Iambic Pentameter
6. The freedom of a poet in writing
Poetic Diction
Onomatopoeia
Poetic License
Alliteration
7. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Introduction
Sonnet
Exciting Force
Expository Purpose
8. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Plot
Anthropomorphism
Romance
Setting
9. Before the main part or actually story
Tone
Folktale
Introduction
Surrealism
10. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Free Verse
Resolution
Dialect
Characterization
11. The prevailing psychological state
Climate
Stereotype Character
Argumentative purpose
Inference
12. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Consonance
Sarcasm
Oxymoron
Simile
13. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Symbol
Exposition
Euphony
Context
14. The perspective from which a story is told
Elegy
Figure of Speech
Allusion
Point of View
15. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Syntax
Legend
Sonnet
Narrative
16. Subject
Topic
Foreshadowing
Understatement
Rhythm
17. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Anthropomorphism
Anecdote
Synecdoche
Interior Monologue
18. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Topic
Falling Action
Literal Meaning
Parallelism
19. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Narrative
Farce
Organizing Principles
Setting
20. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Metaphor
Rhythm
Synecdoche
Diction
21. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Characterization
Setting
Idiom
Epithet
22. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Tone
Introduction
Cliche
Imagery
23. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Villain(ess)
Voice
Climate
Paradox
24. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Sprung rhythm
Diction
Tragedy
Expository Purpose
25. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Anecdote
Syntax
Dialect
Monologue
26. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Organizing Principles
Topic
Aphorism
Persuasive Purpose
27. Presentation of the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Stream of Consciousness
Sonnet
Sequence Patterns
Topic
28. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Aphorism
Tone
Pathos
Allegory
29. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Metonymy
Aside
Parallelism
Anthropomorphism
30. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Inference
Figurative Language
Flashback
Crisis
31. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Concrete Poetry
Soliloquy
Superhero(ine)
Theme
32. Words mean exactly what they say
Understatement
Literal Meaning
Metaphor
Rising Action
33. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Falling Action
Epigram
Mood
Exciting Force
34. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Feeling
Context
Setting
Antithesis
35. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Climax
Persuasive Purpose
Literal Meaning
Romance
36. The process by which the writer develops a character
Characterization
Theater
Connotation
Anecdote
37. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Genre
Expository Purpose
Idiom
Legend
38. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Atmosphere
Poetic License
Romance
Rising Action
39. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Narrative Purpose
Epithet
Euphony
Foil
40. Exaggeration
Diction
Hyperbole
Dramatic Monologue
Setting
41. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Plot
Sarcasm
Anachronism
Sequence Patterns
42. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
First-person
Paradox
Aside
Anachronism
43. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Point of View
Antihero(ine)
Style
Blank Verse
44. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Sarcasm
Style
Rhyme Scheme
Voice
45. Point of view
Informative Purpose
Atmosphere
Soliloquy
Perspective
46. Symbolism; substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') or with which it is closely identified
Metonymy
Rhyme Scheme
Literal Meaning
Epithet
47. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Ballad
Farce
Irony
Onomatopoeia
48. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Figure of Speech
Exciting Force
Complication
Hero(ine)
49. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Stream of Consciousness
Epithet
Sequence Patterns
Argumentative purpose
50. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Sarcasm
Assonance
Metaphor
Plot