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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Setting
Mood
Resolution
Dramatic Monologue
2. The process by which the writer develops a character
Characterization
Diction
Apostrophe
Organizing Principles
3. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Idiom
Epigram
Hyperbole
Interior Monologue
4. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Antihero(ine)
Figure of Speech
Anachronism
Inference
5. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Synecdoche
Surrealism
Sarcasm
Sonnet
6. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Descriptive Purpose
Perspective
Assonance
Organizing Principles
7. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Rising Action
Heroic Couplet
Figurative Language
Literal Meaning
8. Dictionary definition of a word
Foil
Anthropomorphism
Stanza
Denotation
9. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Metonymy
Voice
Figurative Language
Climax
10. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Empathy
Characterization
Stereotype Character
Rhetorical Question
11. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Complication
Falling Action
Symbol
Superhero(ine)
12. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Epithet
Informative Purpose
Antihero(ine)
Implication
13. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Folktale
Connotation
Metonymy
Anachronism
14. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Pastoral
Connotation
Simile
Stanza
15. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Anastrophe
Crisis
Rhyme Scheme
Villain(ess)
16. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Free Verse
Sarcasm
Romance
Imagery
17. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Pathos
Simile
Organizing Principles
Rhyme
18. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Maxim
Narrative
Stream of Consciousness
Irony
19. 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
Stereotype Character
Genre
Conflict
Point of View
20. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Couplet
Connotation
Cliche
Confidant
21. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Simile
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Tale
22. The freedom of a poet in writing
Elegy
Maxim
Aphorism
Poetic License
23. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Setting
Legend
Elegy
Anthropomorphism
24. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Antithesis
Poetic Syntax
Parody
Legend
25. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Poetic Diction
Simile
Persuasive Purpose
Dialect
26. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Introduction
Style
Topic
Anastrophe
27. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Epithet
Simile
Allegory
Point of View
28. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Denouement
Plot
Point of View
Euphemism
29. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Voice
Concrete Poetry
Romance
Simile
30. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Theater
Stream of Consciousness
Stereotype Character
Sequence Patterns
31. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Monologue
Persona
Free Verse
Descriptive Purpose
32. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Apostrophe
Confidant
Climax
Pun
33. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Poetic License
Synecdoche
Crisis
Euphony
34. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Parallelism
Rising Action
Connotation
Realism
35. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Implication
Metaphor
Symbol
Free Verse
36. The perspective from which a story is told
Myth
Allusion
Point of View
Topic
37. Dramatic speech to oneself
Anthropomorphism
Maxim
Context
Soliloquy
38. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Tragedy
Sequence Patterns
Setting
Stanza
39. A word imitating the sound it represents
Onomatopoeia
Blank Verse
Hero(ine)
Theater
40. To display emotions and ideas
Surrealism
Concrete Poetry
Expressive Purpose
Crisis
41. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Stream of Consciousness
Free Verse
Falling Action
Atmosphere
42. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Third-person
Maxim
Point of View
Antagonist
43. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Personification
Parable
Exciting Force
Sprung rhythm
44. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Characterization
Flashback
Informative Purpose
Setting
45. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Exposition
Apostrophe
Aphorism
Consonance
46. A contradiction or dilemma
Satire
Paradox
Crisis
Syntax
47. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Parable
Context
Figure of Speech
Syntax
48. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Conclusion
Sonnet
Irony
Personification
49. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Inference
Feeling
Euphony
Empathy
50. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Informative Purpose
Stanza
First-person
Simile