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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
Paradox
Comedy
Falling Action
Pastoral
2. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Assonance
Villain(ess)
Climate
Informative Purpose
3. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Inference
Dramatic Monologue
Metonymy
Sequence Patterns
4. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Cliche
Theme
Organizing Principles
Anecdote
5. The perspective from which a story is told
Apostrophe
Point of View
Style
Stereotype Character
6. A word imitating the sound it represents
Paradox
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
Dialect
7. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Imagery
Setting
Third-person
Parable
8. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Personification
Synecdoche
Mood
9. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Theater
Symbol
Free Verse
Feeling
10. A final settlement
Conclusion
Stereotype Character
Monologue
Sprung rhythm
11. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Rhythm
Narrative
Topic
Sequence Patterns
12. The prevailing psychological state
Climate
Parody
Anastrophe
Metaphor
13. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Poetic Diction
Complication
Analogy
Apostrophe
14. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Complication
Foil
Consonance
15. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Voice
Climax
Sprung rhythm
Metonymy
16. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Organizing Principles
Rhetorical Question
Hero(ine)
Monologue
17. Suggestions or hints
Tone
First-person
Epigram
Implication
18. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Rhetorical Question
Villain(ess)
Literal Meaning
Free Verse
19. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Comedy
Understatement
Foil
Parallelism
20. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Foreshadowing
Narrative
Euphony
Aphorism
21. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Thesis
Conflict
Resolution
Antagonist
22. Subject
Comedy
Feeling
Topic
Maxim
23. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Implication
Alliteration
Ballad
Villain(ess)
24. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Aphorism
Stanza
Monologue
Stream of Consciousness
25. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Exposition
Imagery
Foil
Symbol
26. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Introduction
Setting
Rhythm
27. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Sequence Patterns
Thesis
Poetic License
Aside
28. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Parable
Poetic License
Denouement
Informative Purpose
29. 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
Personification
Antihero(ine)
Sequence Patterns
Synecdoche
30. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Allusion
Characterization
Consonance
Thesis
31. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Assonance
Denotation
Feeling
Figurative Language
32. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
First-person
Denouement
Conclusion
Anastrophe
33. Dictionary definition of a word
Exciting Force
Foil
Diction
Denotation
34. An idea that is implied or suggested
Narrative Purpose
Informative Purpose
Connotation
Syntax
35. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Idiom
Aside
Exposition
Figurative Language
36. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Epigram
First-person
Allusion
Heroic Couplet
37. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Monologue
Assonance
Informative Purpose
Comedy
38. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Empathy
Exposition
Realism
Simile
39. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Crisis
Understatement
Anthropomorphism
Third-person
40. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Persuasive Purpose
Expository Purpose
Stanza
Rhetorical Question
41. A short story teaching a lesson
Ode
Legend
Third-person
Parable
42. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Denotation
Metaphor
Rhyme
Assonance
43. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Euphemism
Fable
Satire
Couplet
44. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Iambic Pentameter
Allusion
Aside
Fable
45. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Anachronism
Argumentative purpose
Aphorism
Informative Purpose
46. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Euphony
Implication
Concrete Poetry
Denouement
47. A group of lines in a poem
Blank Verse
Denotation
Understatement
Stanza
48. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Descriptive Purpose
Climate
Conflict
Villain(ess)
49. 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
Surrealism
Metonymy
Thesis
Organizing Principles
50. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Symbol
Literal Meaning
Anthropomorphism
Satire