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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Villain(ess)
Tragedy
First-person
Blank Verse
2. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Plot
Confidant
Informative Purpose
Assonance
3. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Soliloquy
Rhyme Scheme
Characterization
Allegory
4. 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
Topic
Denotation
Superhero(ine)
Stereotype Character
5. Emotional appeal
Pathos
Realism
Connotation
Sequence Patterns
6. Dramatic speech to oneself
Soliloquy
Antagonist
Foreshadowing
Figure of Speech
7. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Narrative Purpose
Sonnet
Synecdoche
Rhythm
8. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Free Verse
Rhythm
Couplet
Third-person
9. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Synecdoche
Connotation
Dialect
Antithesis
10. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Oxymoron
Sonnet
Superhero(ine)
Personification
11. To display emotions and ideas
Expressive Purpose
Flashback
Climax
Metonymy
12. Presentation of the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Resolution
Symbol
Poetic Diction
Stream of Consciousness
13. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Tone
Anthropomorphism
Analogy
Pathos
14. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Maxim
Anachronism
Stream of Consciousness
Hyperbole
15. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Exciting Force
Theater
Climate
Anastrophe
16. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Romance
Irony
Euphony
Descriptive Purpose
17. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Euphemism
Metonymy
Rhetorical Question
18. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
First-person
Dramatic Monologue
Heroic Couplet
Ode
19. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Foreshadowing
Interior Monologue
Allegory
Apostrophe
20. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Rhetorical Question
Romance
Elegy
Heroic Couplet
21. The final actions or solution of the plot
Blank Verse
Consonance
Resolution
Persona
22. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Narrative Purpose
Allegory
Rising Action
Elegy
23. A message that digresses from the main subject
Aside
Antagonist
Hero(ine)
Organizing Principles
24. Humorous imitation
Parody
Hero(ine)
Perspective
Informative Purpose
25. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Alliteration
Feeling
Narrative
Conclusion
26. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Pastoral
Tragedy
Onomatopoeia
Voice
27. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Syntax
Conclusion
Stereotype Character
Allegory
28. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Third-person
Blank Verse
Exposition
Argumentative purpose
29. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Complication
Farce
Climax
Anachronism
30. Suggestions or hints
Allusion
Implication
Tragedy
Climax
31. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Superhero(ine)
Allusion
Theater
Realism
32. The perspective from which a story is told
Conflict
Point of View
Folktale
Exposition
33. An idea that is implied or suggested
Legend
Conflict
Connotation
Tragedy
34. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Villain(ess)
Complication
Characterization
Dialect
35. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Stanza
Soliloquy
Crisis
Concrete Poetry
36. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Myth
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Exposition
37. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Stream of Consciousness
Rhetorical Question
Argumentative purpose
Expository Purpose
38. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Crisis
Organizing Principles
Persona
Theme
39. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Epigram
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Idiom
40. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Descriptive Purpose
Complication
Argumentative purpose
Simile
41. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Antagonist
Ode
Poetic Diction
Comedy
42. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Tragedy
Atmosphere
Aphorism
Thesis
43. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Denouement
Empathy
Analogy
Plot
44. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Tone
Informative Purpose
Superhero(ine)
Figure of Speech
45. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Figure of Speech
Argumentative purpose
Poetic Diction
Onomatopoeia
46. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Parable
Organizing Principles
Blank Verse
Irony
47. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Allegory
Sonnet
Resolution
Rising Action
48. Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
Interior Monologue
Plot
Apostrophe
49. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Persuasive Purpose
Antagonist
Tragedy
Rhythm
50. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Sequence Patterns
Tone
Allegory
Feeling
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