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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Style
Persona
Monologue
2. A play on words
Pun
Feeling
Comedy
Ballad
3. Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
Pastoral
Aside
Antagonist
4. Recurring at regular intervals
Imagery
Hero(ine)
Rhythm
Romance
5. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Denotation
Feeling
Conclusion
Folktale
6. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Blank Verse
Dialect
Informative Purpose
Pun
7. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Farce
Personification
Inference
Anthropomorphism
8. The freedom of a poet in writing
Cliche
Descriptive Purpose
Parallelism
Poetic License
9. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Stereotype Character
Exposition
Flashback
Diction
10. Before the main part or actually story
Climate
Feeling
Sarcasm
Introduction
11. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Diction
Heroic Couplet
Assonance
Mood
12. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Anachronism
Allegory
Perspective
Heroic Couplet
13. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Stream of Consciousness
Parallelism
Villain(ess)
Myth
14. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Maxim
Symbol
Inference
Plot
15. The perspective from which a story is told
Point of View
Blank Verse
Connotation
Sequence Patterns
16. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Parallelism
Theater
Metonymy
Inference
17. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Anastrophe
Irony
Inference
Alliteration
18. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Third-person
Epithet
Conclusion
Ode
19. Symbolism; substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') or with which it is closely identified
Inference
Metonymy
Narrative Purpose
Surrealism
20. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Thesis
Persona
Fable
Pun
21. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Symbol
Couplet
Aside
Imagery
22. 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
Tragedy
Iambic Pentameter
Sequence Patterns
Informative Purpose
23. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Heroic Couplet
Legend
Allegory
Realism
24. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Couplet
Epigram
Persuasive Purpose
Poetic Diction
25. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Plot
Heroic Couplet
Romance
First-person
26. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Third-person
First-person
Understatement
Villain(ess)
27. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Maxim
Narrative Purpose
Antihero(ine)
Cliche
28. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Falling Action
Irony
Theme
Descriptive Purpose
29. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Voice
Pun
Figure of Speech
Sonnet
30. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Expressive Purpose
Confidant
Imagery
Realism
31. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Satire
Onomatopoeia
Point of View
Pastoral
32. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Theme
Couplet
Legend
Poetic Syntax
33. The final actions or solution of the plot
Poetic Syntax
Sonnet
Resolution
Genre
34. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Parable
Context
Sequence Patterns
Sprung rhythm
35. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Rhyme Scheme
Assonance
Simile
Crisis
36. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Free Verse
Folktale
Persona
Pastoral
37. A contradiction or dilemma
Paradox
Symbol
Descriptive Purpose
Theme
38. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Atmosphere
Aside
Informative Purpose
Cliche
39. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Euphemism
Allusion
Genre
Topic
40. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Aside
Rising Action
Sarcasm
Pathos
41. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Euphony
Inference
Imagery
Ballad
42. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Foreshadowing
Ode
Sprung rhythm
Falling Action
43. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Apostrophe
Empathy
Elegy
Mood
44. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Onomatopoeia
Parallelism
Expository Purpose
Anastrophe
45. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Tragedy
Analogy
Third-person
Confidant
46. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Confidant
Empathy
Rhythm
Anecdote
47. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Topic
Ballad
Descriptive Purpose
Literal Meaning
48. 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
Simile
Stereotype Character
Poetic Syntax
Heroic Couplet
49. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Oxymoron
Empathy
Mood
Exciting Force
50. Dramatic speech to oneself
Heroic Couplet
Allegory
Soliloquy
Oxymoron