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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Figurative Language
Anastrophe
Style
First-person
2. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Euphony
Descriptive Purpose
Allegory
Consonance
3. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Foil
Satire
Climate
Consonance
4. A message that digresses from the main subject
Realism
Empathy
Stream of Consciousness
Aside
5. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Genre
Antagonist
Dramatic Monologue
Stereotype Character
6. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Exciting Force
Introduction
Monologue
Synecdoche
7. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Confidant
Atmosphere
Personification
Hyperbole
8. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Style
Aphorism
Antihero(ine)
Characterization
9. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Argumentative purpose
Falling Action
Epithet
Cliche
10. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Imagery
Empathy
Descriptive Purpose
Flashback
11. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Alliteration
Antihero(ine)
Voice
12. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Legend
Sprung rhythm
Blank Verse
Persuasive Purpose
13. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Imagery
Myth
Conflict
Dramatic Monologue
14. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Sonnet
Paradox
Sarcasm
Monologue
15. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Ode
Narrative
Euphemism
Narrative Purpose
16. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Rhyme
Tragedy
Theme
Synecdoche
17. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Narrative
Climate
Consonance
18. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Comedy
Resolution
Poetic Syntax
Stereotype Character
19. Suggestions or hints
Implication
Comedy
Exposition
Surrealism
20. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Farce
Figurative Language
Climate
Consonance
21. The freedom of a poet in writing
Comedy
Denouement
Syntax
Poetic License
22. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Feeling
Falling Action
Organizing Principles
Narrative Purpose
23. Series of events
Plot
Poetic License
Complication
Diction
24. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Elegy
Inference
Iambic Pentameter
Introduction
25. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Complication
Figurative Language
Cliche
Theater
26. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Parody
Persona
Narrative
Style
27. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Assonance
Maxim
Anecdote
Denouement
28. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Aside
Imagery
Antithesis
Falling Action
29. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Introduction
Rising Action
Connotation
Confidant
30. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Confidant
Third-person
Expository Purpose
31. The final actions or solution of the plot
Plot
Ballad
Resolution
Synecdoche
32. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Conclusion
Hyperbole
Mood
Monologue
33. A play on words
Pun
Oxymoron
Climate
Foreshadowing
34. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Blank Verse
Expository Purpose
Genre
Literal Meaning
35. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Figure of Speech
Persona
Dialect
Literal Meaning
36. The perspective from which a story is told
Topic
Elegy
Point of View
Anthropomorphism
37. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Atmosphere
Ode
Empathy
Plot
38. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Context
Literal Meaning
Interior Monologue
Fable
39. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Resolution
Style
Euphony
Maxim
40. A group of lines in a poem
Monologue
Stanza
Sarcasm
Legend
41. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Aphorism
Theme
Alliteration
Imagery
42. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Point of View
Villain(ess)
Plot
Apostrophe
43. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Setting
Synecdoche
Literal Meaning
Metonymy
44. To display emotions and ideas
Tone
Soliloquy
Expressive Purpose
Metonymy
45. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Tragedy
Stanza
Legend
Sprung rhythm
46. Dictionary definition of a word
Climax
Denotation
Myth
Realism
47. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Elegy
Rhetorical Question
Rhythm
Anthropomorphism
48. Conjoining contradictory terms
Theme
Resolution
Figure of Speech
Oxymoron
49. A short story teaching a lesson
Stanza
Couplet
Climax
Parable
50. Emotional appeal
Pathos
Dramatic Monologue
Maxim
Persuasive Purpose