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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
Poetic Diction
Rising Action
Expressive Purpose
Aphorism
2. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Stanza
Realism
Comedy
Rhyme Scheme
3. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Understatement
Voice
Exposition
Parable
4. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Superhero(ine)
Farce
Rhetorical Question
Interior Monologue
5. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Connotation
Metonymy
Pastoral
Anthropomorphism
6. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Denotation
Aphorism
Assonance
Mood
7. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
First-person
Heroic Couplet
Anachronism
Soliloquy
8. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Parallelism
Couplet
Maxim
Epigram
9. A word imitating the sound it represents
Aside
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Analogy
10. Recurring at regular intervals
Surrealism
Rhythm
Fable
Analogy
11. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Denotation
Onomatopoeia
Sprung rhythm
Organizing Principles
12. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Myth
Antagonist
Epigram
Poetic Syntax
13. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
First-person
Metonymy
Denotation
Monologue
14. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Narrative
Conclusion
Maxim
Comedy
15. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Diction
Rhetorical Question
Farce
Conflict
16. The perspective from which a story is told
Tragedy
Climax
Allegory
Point of View
17. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Expressive Purpose
Hyperbole
Imagery
Mood
18. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Confidant
Theme
Tale
Third-person
19. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Aphorism
Parallelism
Antihero(ine)
Interior Monologue
20. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Third-person
Setting
Pastoral
Ballad
21. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Legend
Concrete Poetry
Soliloquy
Organizing Principles
22. 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
Antagonist
Feeling
Topic
Synecdoche
23. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Analogy
Romance
Parable
Informative Purpose
24. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Antihero(ine)
Plot
Fable
Conflict
25. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Idiom
Free Verse
Euphony
Blank Verse
26. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Cliche
Genre
Theme
Comedy
27. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Synecdoche
Elegy
Oxymoron
Empathy
28. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Assonance
Mood
Atmosphere
Rhythm
29. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Crisis
Sequence Patterns
Hyperbole
Apostrophe
30. An idea that is implied or suggested
Iambic Pentameter
Genre
Connotation
Narrative
31. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Climate
Folktale
Understatement
Exciting Force
32. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Aside
Foreshadowing
Persuasive Purpose
Allegory
33. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Poetic Syntax
Understatement
Style
Satire
34. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Stanza
Myth
Blank Verse
Narrative
35. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Free Verse
Personification
Monologue
Poetic Diction
36. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Myth
Surrealism
Complication
Perspective
37. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Thesis
Sprung rhythm
Introduction
Flashback
38. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Parallelism
Allegory
Ballad
Characterization
39. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Pun
Denouement
Alliteration
Hyperbole
40. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Tale
Dramatic Monologue
Sequence Patterns
Plot
41. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Parody
Style
Inference
Monologue
42. Conjoining contradictory terms
Confidant
Oxymoron
Connotation
Aside
43. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Setting
Empathy
Antihero(ine)
Anthropomorphism
44. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Blank Verse
Exposition
Informative Purpose
Consonance
45. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Analogy
Figure of Speech
Farce
Sonnet
46. The process by which the writer develops a character
Dramatic Monologue
Couplet
Allegory
Characterization
47. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Argumentative purpose
Exposition
Atmosphere
Elegy
48. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Narrative Purpose
Monologue
Pun
49. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Third-person
Pastoral
Connotation
Figure of Speech
50. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Tragedy
Exciting Force
Genre
Symbol