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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Tragedy
Apostrophe
Comedy
Rhyme Scheme
2. 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
Monologue
Stereotype Character
Metaphor
Elegy
3. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Antithesis
Third-person
Confidant
Surrealism
4. Dictionary definition of a word
Anthropomorphism
Antagonist
Rhythm
Denotation
5. The freedom of a poet in writing
Onomatopoeia
Superhero(ine)
Realism
Poetic License
6. Recurring at regular intervals
Epigram
Pun
Rhythm
Cliche
7. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Stanza
Tale
Parallelism
Understatement
8. A message that digresses from the main subject
Sarcasm
Aside
Hyperbole
Idiom
9. Humorous imitation
Imagery
Pathos
Parody
Sarcasm
10. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Free Verse
Farce
Climax
Alliteration
11. The prevailing psychological state
Farce
Irony
Climate
Implication
12. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Elegy
Genre
Figurative Language
Surrealism
13. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Conflict
Monologue
Parallelism
Poetic Diction
14. A word imitating the sound it represents
Monologue
Pastoral
Rhetorical Question
Onomatopoeia
15. To display emotions and ideas
Tale
Expressive Purpose
Theater
Analogy
16. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Argumentative purpose
Sarcasm
Introduction
Soliloquy
17. A group of lines in a poem
Hyperbole
Idiom
Stanza
Apostrophe
18. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Context
Stream of Consciousness
Imagery
Diction
19. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Persona
Conflict
Sequence Patterns
Rhetorical Question
20. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Expressive Purpose
Persuasive Purpose
Pathos
Couplet
21. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Exciting Force
Diction
Tragedy
Farce
22. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Consonance
Descriptive Purpose
Perspective
Paradox
23. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Villain(ess)
Rhythm
Informative Purpose
Fable
24. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Context
Theater
Persona
Couplet
25. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Interior Monologue
Poetic License
Sprung rhythm
Anachronism
26. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Expressive Purpose
Simile
Myth
Narrative
27. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Epigram
Consonance
Symbol
Empathy
28. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Expository Purpose
Euphony
Third-person
Atmosphere
29. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Antithesis
Ballad
Myth
First-person
30. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Setting
Falling Action
Heroic Couplet
Ode
31. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Connotation
Antihero(ine)
Climate
Concrete Poetry
32. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Antithesis
Comedy
Exciting Force
Pun
33. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Antithesis
Expressive Purpose
Understatement
Thesis
34. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Understatement
Conflict
Tragedy
Metonymy
35. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Descriptive Purpose
Epigram
Blank Verse
Theme
36. Dramatic speech to oneself
Soliloquy
Denotation
Theater
Inference
37. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Assonance
Connotation
Denotation
Mood
38. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Inference
Figure of Speech
Soliloquy
Surrealism
39. Point of view
Legend
Theme
Perspective
Soliloquy
40. The main (good) character
Rhythm
Blank Verse
Hero(ine)
Antihero(ine)
41. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Imagery
Aphorism
Alliteration
Euphemism
42. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Iambic Pentameter
Confidant
Point of View
Narrative
43. Suggestions or hints
Atmosphere
Interior Monologue
Personification
Implication
44. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Narrative Purpose
Conflict
Descriptive Purpose
Superhero(ine)
45. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Anthropomorphism
Tragedy
Symbol
Anachronism
46. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Tragedy
Literal Meaning
Folktale
Idiom
47. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Hyperbole
Rhyme
Antithesis
Dialect
48. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Genre
Surrealism
Setting
Sequence Patterns
49. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Organizing Principles
Characterization
Satire
Romance
50. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Anastrophe
Imagery
Epigram
Heroic Couplet