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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Consonance
Exciting Force
Sequence Patterns
Folktale
2. Emotional appeal
Epigram
Figure of Speech
Pathos
Mood
3. A word imitating the sound it represents
Dramatic Monologue
Stereotype Character
Onomatopoeia
Anachronism
4. A play on words
Pun
Pathos
Dramatic Monologue
Thesis
5. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Monologue
Antithesis
Alliteration
Fable
6. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Paradox
Characterization
Legend
Consonance
7. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Legend
Assonance
Tale
Organizing Principles
8. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Foil
Interior Monologue
Informative Purpose
Climate
9. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Genre
Free Verse
Rhyme
Denotation
10. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Myth
Aphorism
Maxim
Mood
11. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Persona
Hyperbole
Descriptive Purpose
Characterization
12. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Metaphor
Narrative Purpose
Symbol
Descriptive Purpose
13. The final actions or solution of the plot
Exposition
Blank Verse
Myth
Resolution
14. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Tragedy
Expressive Purpose
Rhetorical Question
Personification
15. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Denouement
Assonance
Crisis
Expressive Purpose
16. Suggestions or hints
Thesis
Implication
Expository Purpose
Topic
17. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Fable
Sarcasm
Sequence Patterns
Euphemism
18. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Fable
Personification
Figurative Language
Cliche
19. A short story teaching a lesson
Monologue
Parable
Confidant
Empathy
20. The freedom of a poet in writing
Poetic License
Poetic Syntax
Stereotype Character
Resolution
21. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Topic
Heroic Couplet
Third-person
Falling Action
22. To display emotions and ideas
Voice
Expressive Purpose
Folktale
Epigram
23. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Parable
Euphemism
Thesis
Analogy
24. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Foil
Implication
Poetic License
Persuasive Purpose
25. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Climax
Anachronism
Apostrophe
Complication
26. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Resolution
Euphony
Sarcasm
Maxim
27. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Anastrophe
Sarcasm
Expressive Purpose
Ballad
28. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Blank Verse
Monologue
Romance
First-person
29. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Dramatic Monologue
Maxim
Mood
Style
30. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Parallelism
Style
Rising Action
Comedy
31. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Antagonist
Satire
Anachronism
Heroic Couplet
32. A contradiction or dilemma
Sequence Patterns
Figurative Language
Villain(ess)
Paradox
33. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Context
Argumentative purpose
Point of View
Simile
34. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Conflict
Informative Purpose
Characterization
Couplet
35. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Flashback
Expressive Purpose
Falling Action
Allegory
36. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Tragedy
Irony
Pastoral
Inference
37. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Style
Genre
Persuasive Purpose
Figurative Language
38. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Parallelism
First-person
Exciting Force
Blank Verse
39. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Allegory
Narrative
Pastoral
Parody
40. (tall): short piece of fiction
Consonance
Tale
Organizing Principles
Atmosphere
41. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Concrete Poetry
Antagonist
Interior Monologue
Theme
42. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Farce
Legend
Parallelism
Rhythm
43. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Assonance
Style
Antagonist
Blank Verse
44. 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
Surrealism
Interior Monologue
Synecdoche
Exciting Force
45. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Denouement
Paradox
Figure of Speech
Conflict
46. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Metaphor
Atmosphere
Assonance
Metonymy
47. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Empathy
Narrative
Exciting Force
Rhetorical Question
48. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Satire
Villain(ess)
Hero(ine)
Dramatic Monologue
49. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Sarcasm
Dialect
Persuasive Purpose
Superhero(ine)
50. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Antagonist
Couplet
Syntax
Hyperbole
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