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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The perspective from which a story is told
Dramatic Monologue
Allegory
Interior Monologue
Point of View
2. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Narrative
Anachronism
Antagonist
Stereotype Character
3. Presentation of the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Stereotype Character
Stream of Consciousness
Rhythm
First-person
4. Words mean exactly what they say
Style
Inference
Maxim
Literal Meaning
5. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Tone
Antithesis
Realism
Elegy
6. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Inference
Third-person
Thesis
Imagery
7. The process by which the writer develops a character
Rhetorical Question
Hyperbole
Characterization
Sequence Patterns
8. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Exposition
Confidant
Maxim
Assonance
9. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Idiom
Conclusion
Inference
Perspective
10. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Soliloquy
Tale
Sequence Patterns
11. Before the main part or actually story
Context
Introduction
Elegy
Heroic Couplet
12. 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
Oxymoron
Assonance
First-person
Iambic Pentameter
13. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Descriptive Purpose
Poetic Syntax
Point of View
Narrative Purpose
14. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Sprung rhythm
Iambic Pentameter
Irony
Exposition
15. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Implication
Comedy
Narrative Purpose
Couplet
16. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Third-person
Ode
Satire
Romance
17. Humorous imitation
Comedy
Parody
Antagonist
Syntax
18. A play on words
Sprung rhythm
Style
Pun
Elegy
19. Dictionary definition of a word
Paradox
Anthropomorphism
Poetic Diction
Denotation
20. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Understatement
Allusion
Rhetorical Question
Free Verse
21. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Poetic Syntax
Tone
Rising Action
Plot
22. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Foil
Diction
Hero(ine)
Aphorism
23. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Confidant
Personification
Denotation
Alliteration
24. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Aside
Anastrophe
Poetic License
Rhyme
25. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Conflict
Tragedy
Interior Monologue
Foil
26. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Resolution
Voice
Farce
Comedy
27. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Anthropomorphism
Antithesis
Rhyme
Realism
28. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Complication
Epigram
Stereotype Character
Couplet
29. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Third-person
Exciting Force
Pun
Resolution
30. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Exciting Force
Expressive Purpose
Narrative Purpose
Analogy
31. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Narrative
Realism
Pastoral
Anecdote
32. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Foreshadowing
Atmosphere
Irony
Blank Verse
33. A message that digresses from the main subject
Aside
Narrative Purpose
Consonance
Theater
34. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Comedy
Poetic Syntax
Expository Purpose
Thesis
35. A contradiction or dilemma
Topic
Paradox
Rhyme Scheme
Antagonist
36. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Villain(ess)
Superhero(ine)
Farce
Rhyme
37. 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
Hero(ine)
Persona
Synecdoche
Diction
38. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Onomatopoeia
Euphemism
Mood
Idiom
39. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Exposition
Imagery
Folktale
Plot
40. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Climax
Rising Action
Argumentative purpose
Folktale
41. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Dramatic Monologue
Blank Verse
Literal Meaning
Concrete Poetry
42. Suggestions or hints
Parable
Implication
Metaphor
Allusion
43. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Climax
Anachronism
Understatement
44. A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
Parody
Understatement
Informative Purpose
45. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Literal Meaning
Syntax
Foil
Confidant
46. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Sonnet
Synecdoche
Atmosphere
Assonance
47. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Conclusion
Epithet
Alliteration
Genre
48. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Falling Action
Satire
Imagery
Euphemism
49. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Descriptive Purpose
Anthropomorphism
Euphony
Expressive Purpose
50. Recurring at regular intervals
Romance
Tale
Setting
Rhythm