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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Folktale
Mood
Rising Action
Ballad
2. Presentation of the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Assonance
Myth
Stream of Consciousness
Conclusion
3. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Parallelism
Organizing Principles
Anastrophe
Heroic Couplet
4. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Idiom
Anthropomorphism
Antagonist
Informative Purpose
5. 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
Anastrophe
Climax
Anecdote
Stereotype Character
6. A play on words
Thesis
Expressive Purpose
Sarcasm
Pun
7. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Dialect
Crisis
Tone
Hero(ine)
8. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Analogy
Expressive Purpose
Foreshadowing
Irony
9. An idea that is implied or suggested
Euphony
Inference
Connotation
Legend
10. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Metaphor
Allegory
Surrealism
Cliche
11. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Allegory
Poetic Diction
Exposition
Climate
12. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Dialect
Climate
Ballad
Assonance
13. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Couplet
Apostrophe
Myth
Epithet
14. Series of events
Foreshadowing
Plot
Analogy
Expressive Purpose
15. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Confidant
Anthropomorphism
Elegy
Style
16. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Denotation
Monologue
Empathy
Folktale
17. A short story teaching a lesson
Parable
Elegy
Symbol
Poetic Diction
18. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Characterization
Descriptive Purpose
Epigram
Exciting Force
19. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Figurative Language
Parallelism
Assonance
Villain(ess)
20. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Elegy
Apostrophe
Ode
Crisis
21. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Cliche
Couplet
Thesis
Allusion
22. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Metaphor
Free Verse
Rhetorical Question
Rhyme
23. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Poetic Syntax
Tragedy
Pun
Symbol
24. The perspective from which a story is told
Paradox
Style
Metaphor
Point of View
25. Dramatic speech to oneself
Complication
Maxim
Soliloquy
Parallelism
26. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Folktale
Narrative
Context
Legend
27. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Theater
Conflict
Consonance
28. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Metonymy
Antihero(ine)
Sarcasm
Exposition
29. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Thesis
Tragedy
Voice
Euphony
30. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Flashback
Iambic Pentameter
Exposition
Narrative
31. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Pastoral
Flashback
Metaphor
Allusion
32. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Monologue
Point of View
Metonymy
Parable
33. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Myth
Folktale
Style
First-person
34. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Voice
Flashback
Theater
Folktale
35. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Ballad
Confidant
Analogy
Thesis
36. A final settlement
Confidant
Blank Verse
Conclusion
Mood
37. A group of lines in a poem
Feeling
Free Verse
Syntax
Stanza
38. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Rhetorical Question
Free Verse
Atmosphere
Informative Purpose
39. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Idiom
Empathy
Dialect
Setting
40. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Aphorism
Epigram
Implication
Analogy
41. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Voice
Concrete Poetry
Stereotype Character
Hyperbole
42. The process by which the writer develops a character
Stanza
Characterization
Tone
Dramatic Monologue
43. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Legend
Satire
Interior Monologue
Argumentative purpose
44. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Foreshadowing
Thesis
Imagery
Farce
45. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Inference
Confidant
Thesis
Figure of Speech
46. The prevailing psychological state
Climate
Epithet
Imagery
Satire
47. 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
Theater
Synecdoche
Conclusion
Inference
48. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Informative Purpose
Anachronism
Apostrophe
Parody
49. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Topic
Rhyme Scheme
Simile
Introduction
50. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Romance
Poetic License
Falling Action
Setting