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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Idiom
Personification
Cliche
Iambic Pentameter
2. A play on words
Syntax
Pun
Concrete Poetry
Informative Purpose
3. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Anecdote
Tone
Sarcasm
Apostrophe
4. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Tragedy
Argumentative purpose
Maxim
Point of View
5. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Surrealism
Poetic Diction
Conflict
Complication
6. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Fable
Poetic Diction
Heroic Couplet
Parody
7. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Elegy
Genre
Parable
Resolution
8. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Implication
Farce
Voice
Ode
9. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Syntax
Antihero(ine)
Diction
Expressive Purpose
10. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Plot
Organizing Principles
Blank Verse
Heroic Couplet
11. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Aphorism
Descriptive Purpose
Narrative Purpose
Climax
12. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Plot
Style
Romance
Implication
13. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Sprung rhythm
Conflict
Dramatic Monologue
Anachronism
14. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Rhyme Scheme
Farce
Characterization
Satire
15. Suggestions or hints
Cliche
Implication
Surrealism
Stereotype Character
16. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Villain(ess)
Foil
Understatement
Poetic Syntax
17. 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
Farce
Metonymy
Allusion
Expository Purpose
18. The perspective from which a story is told
Tragedy
Point of View
Anachronism
Rhythm
19. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Realism
Concrete Poetry
Theater
Analogy
20. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Persona
Stanza
Organizing Principles
Free Verse
21. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Tone
Aphorism
Simile
Figurative Language
22. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Paradox
Epigram
Third-person
Monologue
23. Series of events
Figure of Speech
Thesis
Context
Plot
24. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Confidant
Soliloquy
Epithet
Poetic Syntax
25. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Climax
Pathos
Foil
Romance
26. A fixed idea or conception of a character or an idea that does not allow for any individuality; often based on religious/social/racial prejudices
Metaphor
Sequence Patterns
Antagonist
Stereotype Character
27. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Implication
Descriptive Purpose
Flashback
Symbol
28. The process by which the writer develops a character
Stream of Consciousness
Characterization
Anastrophe
Parallelism
29. (tall): short piece of fiction
Plot
Analogy
Theme
Tale
30. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Third-person
Poetic Syntax
Conclusion
31. 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
Synecdoche
Anecdote
Maxim
Argumentative purpose
32. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Allusion
Argumentative purpose
Metaphor
Stream of Consciousness
33. The prevailing psychological state
Antihero(ine)
Apostrophe
Climate
Expository Purpose
34. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Anecdote
Heroic Couplet
Figure of Speech
Thesis
35. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Pastoral
Mood
Alliteration
Folktale
36. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Parallelism
Third-person
Ode
Euphony
37. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Rhyme
Expressive Purpose
Parody
Euphemism
38. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Characterization
Rhyme
Tone
Paradox
39. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Ode
Couplet
Interior Monologue
Apostrophe
40. Conjoining contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Farce
Poetic Syntax
Heroic Couplet
41. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Crisis
Poetic Syntax
Exciting Force
Falling Action
42. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Idiom
Implication
Symbol
Rhetorical Question
43. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Anthropomorphism
Realism
Metaphor
Diction
44. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Crisis
Introduction
Parody
Pastoral
45. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Persona
Rhythm
Concrete Poetry
Informative Purpose
46. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Expository Purpose
Alliteration
Introduction
Persuasive Purpose
47. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Topic
Simile
Context
Synecdoche
48. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Myth
Anachronism
Context
Complication
49. An idea that is implied or suggested
First-person
Connotation
Organizing Principles
Poetic Syntax
50. Word choice
Argumentative purpose
Anthropomorphism
Diction
Myth