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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To display emotions and ideas
Iambic Pentameter
Expressive Purpose
First-person
Cliche
2. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Mood
Argumentative purpose
Third-person
3. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Tragedy
Metaphor
Pathos
Descriptive Purpose
4. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Expository Purpose
Pastoral
Simile
Syntax
5. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Rhythm
Anthropomorphism
Anecdote
6. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Epithet
Diction
Confidant
Euphony
7. Dramatic speech to oneself
Empathy
Soliloquy
Satire
Simile
8. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Poetic License
Stream of Consciousness
Denotation
Euphemism
9. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Rising Action
Ode
Apostrophe
Fable
10. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Euphony
Expository Purpose
Genre
Theme
11. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Theme
Allegory
Crisis
Alliteration
12. Words mean exactly what they say
Poetic Diction
Literal Meaning
Surrealism
Blank Verse
13. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Exciting Force
Imagery
Literal Meaning
Ode
14. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Context
Expressive Purpose
First-person
Euphemism
15. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Parallelism
Pastoral
Rhythm
Satire
16. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Mood
Dramatic Monologue
Parody
Anecdote
17. A short story teaching a lesson
Exposition
Parable
Blank Verse
Euphemism
18. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Expressive Purpose
Epigram
Style
Complication
19. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Comedy
Exciting Force
Cliche
Free Verse
20. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Dramatic Monologue
Theme
Interior Monologue
Epigram
21. A final settlement
Legend
Narrative Purpose
Conclusion
Maxim
22. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Iambic Pentameter
Folktale
Ode
Epigram
23. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Free Verse
Surrealism
Stream of Consciousness
Stanza
24. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Narrative
Sprung rhythm
Rising Action
Organizing Principles
25. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Rhetorical Question
Anthropomorphism
Voice
Expressive Purpose
26. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Denouement
Literal Meaning
Alliteration
Climax
27. 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
Third-person
Persuasive Purpose
First-person
28. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Sarcasm
Concrete Poetry
Euphemism
Monologue
29. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Metaphor
Antihero(ine)
Realism
Satire
30. Conjoining contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Syntax
Superhero(ine)
Climax
31. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Inference
Anecdote
Myth
Poetic Diction
32. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Setting
Falling Action
Antagonist
Cliche
33. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Myth
Aside
Resolution
34. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Figure of Speech
Voice
Atmosphere
Sequence Patterns
35. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Genre
Confidant
Villain(ess)
Resolution
36. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Persuasive Purpose
Foil
Genre
Atmosphere
37. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Pathos
Ode
Rhetorical Question
Couplet
38. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Fable
Theme
Diction
Sprung rhythm
39. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Iambic Pentameter
Anachronism
Theme
Pastoral
40. The main (good) character
Hero(ine)
Poetic License
Style
Satire
41. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Antagonist
Denouement
Maxim
Parody
42. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Topic
Point of View
Superhero(ine)
Resolution
43. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Stream of Consciousness
Elegy
Ode
Synecdoche
44. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Onomatopoeia
Figurative Language
Empathy
Characterization
45. Suggestions or hints
Resolution
Heroic Couplet
Implication
Persuasive Purpose
46. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Foreshadowing
Tone
Iambic Pentameter
Third-person
47. (tall): short piece of fiction
Personification
Tale
Resolution
Anecdote
48. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Apostrophe
Inference
Euphemism
Informative Purpose
49. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Idiom
Alliteration
Syntax
Blank Verse
50. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Climax
Expository Purpose
Understatement
Rising Action