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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Series of events
Voice
Plot
Paradox
Connotation
2. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Metaphor
Alliteration
Theater
Antihero(ine)
3. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Interior Monologue
Antithesis
Farce
Aside
4. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Oxymoron
Syntax
Stanza
Anthropomorphism
5. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Onomatopoeia
Concrete Poetry
Confidant
Exposition
6. To display emotions and ideas
Interior Monologue
Expressive Purpose
Sprung rhythm
Hyperbole
7. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Stereotype Character
Cliche
Satire
Apostrophe
8. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Implication
Euphony
Topic
Climate
9. The process by which the writer develops a character
Foreshadowing
Oxymoron
Organizing Principles
Characterization
10. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Consonance
Irony
Sequence Patterns
Sprung rhythm
11. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Narrative Purpose
Rhyme
Dramatic Monologue
Ode
12. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Synecdoche
Epithet
Perspective
Narrative
13. Word choice
Conflict
Assonance
Diction
Style
14. A message that digresses from the main subject
Onomatopoeia
Aside
Synecdoche
Parable
15. Exaggeration
Antagonist
Introduction
Hyperbole
Sequence Patterns
16. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Sequence Patterns
Antagonist
Pastoral
Analogy
17. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Symbol
Descriptive Purpose
Iambic Pentameter
18. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Euphony
Realism
Flashback
Ode
19. Emotional appeal
Style
Pathos
Topic
Foil
20. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Denouement
Heroic Couplet
Expressive Purpose
Onomatopoeia
21. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Folktale
Stream of Consciousness
Parable
Metonymy
22. Humorous imitation
Satire
Parody
Exposition
Epigram
23. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Connotation
Parallelism
Couplet
Expressive Purpose
24. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Narrative
Blank Verse
Theater
Figurative Language
25. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Plot
Topic
Voice
Mood
26. The perspective from which a story is told
Organizing Principles
Third-person
Implication
Point of View
27. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Parody
Couplet
Expository Purpose
Exposition
28. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Climax
Personification
Third-person
Pun
29. 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
Atmosphere
Stereotype Character
Ode
Epigram
30. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Antagonist
Satire
Third-person
Assonance
31. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Complication
Soliloquy
Cliche
Figure of Speech
32. (tall): short piece of fiction
Anachronism
Exciting Force
Parable
Tale
33. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Metonymy
Falling Action
Anastrophe
Flashback
34. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Simile
Denouement
Falling Action
Dramatic Monologue
35. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Setting
Alliteration
Parallelism
Free Verse
36. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Fable
Feeling
Surrealism
Anachronism
37. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Understatement
Expository Purpose
Surrealism
Aphorism
38. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Elegy
Romance
Denotation
Farce
39. A category or type of literary or artistic work
First-person
Personification
Alliteration
Genre
40. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Genre
Imagery
Resolution
Mood
41. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Sarcasm
Epigram
Hero(ine)
Elegy
42. Conjoining contradictory terms
Atmosphere
Genre
Oxymoron
Introduction
43. A play on words
Pun
Antagonist
Flashback
Stanza
44. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Diction
Interior Monologue
Exciting Force
Aphorism
45. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
Anecdote
Analogy
Aphorism
46. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Empathy
Myth
Antithesis
Pastoral
47. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Theater
Epithet
Sprung rhythm
48. The prevailing psychological state
Climate
Antihero(ine)
Maxim
Imagery
49. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Sarcasm
Synecdoche
Hero(ine)
Denouement
50. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Superhero(ine)
Sonnet
Expressive Purpose
Personification