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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Topic
Antithesis
Irony
Conflict
2. Subject
Paradox
Epigram
Oxymoron
Topic
3. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Mood
Atmosphere
Alliteration
Figurative Language
4. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Maxim
Metonymy
Anastrophe
Folktale
5. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Myth
Folktale
Atmosphere
Characterization
6. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Confidant
Organizing Principles
Tragedy
Elegy
7. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Third-person
Syntax
Exposition
Setting
8. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Poetic Syntax
Dramatic Monologue
Romance
Organizing Principles
9. 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
Ode
Topic
Hyperbole
Iambic Pentameter
10. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Anastrophe
Analogy
Alliteration
Hyperbole
11. Humorous imitation
Parody
Consonance
Genre
Mood
12. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Assonance
Anecdote
Expository Purpose
Descriptive Purpose
13. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Simile
Euphemism
Flashback
Monologue
14. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Villain(ess)
Imagery
Empathy
Anachronism
15. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Pun
Complication
Romance
Euphemism
16. Word choice
Theater
Superhero(ine)
Exciting Force
Diction
17. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Informative Purpose
Farce
Complication
Figurative Language
18. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Metaphor
Tragedy
Comedy
Rhetorical Question
19. 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
Onomatopoeia
Theme
Synecdoche
Villain(ess)
20. Conjoining contradictory terms
Irony
Pastoral
Free Verse
Oxymoron
21. 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
Stereotype Character
Persona
Aside
Antagonist
22. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Metaphor
Anthropomorphism
Connotation
Context
23. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Allegory
Thesis
Oxymoron
Parallelism
24. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Hyperbole
Couplet
Plot
Antithesis
25. Suggestions or hints
Epithet
Theme
Implication
Expository Purpose
26. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Pastoral
Superhero(ine)
Consonance
Free Verse
27. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Realism
Surrealism
Fable
Villain(ess)
28. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Denouement
Elegy
Allegory
Hyperbole
29. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Parable
Pun
Foil
Expository Purpose
30. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Analogy
Parable
Literal Meaning
Context
31. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Symbol
Diction
Paradox
Antagonist
32. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Exciting Force
Connotation
Inference
Denotation
33. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Pun
Confidant
Setting
Resolution
34. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Assonance
Complication
Hero(ine)
Anastrophe
35. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Surrealism
Apostrophe
Syntax
Conclusion
36. A play on words
Rising Action
Pun
Oxymoron
Romance
37. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
Expository Purpose
Diction
Irony
38. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Genre
Denotation
Figurative Language
Denouement
39. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Feeling
Personification
Descriptive Purpose
Antihero(ine)
40. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Metonymy
Apostrophe
Voice
Iambic Pentameter
41. The freedom of a poet in writing
Poetic License
First-person
Fable
Maxim
42. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Apostrophe
Imagery
Iambic Pentameter
Sonnet
43. Emotional appeal
Allusion
Pathos
Hyperbole
Tone
44. A final settlement
Conclusion
Organizing Principles
Antihero(ine)
Genre
45. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Persona
Resolution
Aphorism
Sonnet
46. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Denouement
Stanza
Aphorism
Narrative Purpose
47. Before the main part or actually story
Foil
Introduction
Allusion
Stream of Consciousness
48. Point of view
Realism
Crisis
Perspective
Third-person
49. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Introduction
Villain(ess)
Feeling
Rhetorical Question
50. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Foil
Cliche
Exciting Force
Mood