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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Dramatic speech to oneself
Anastrophe
Stanza
Ballad
Soliloquy
2. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Ballad
Analogy
Diction
Assonance
3. Point of view
Folktale
Perspective
Thesis
Climax
4. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Denotation
Atmosphere
Theater
Folktale
5. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Epigram
Tale
Resolution
Poetic Diction
6. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Mood
Comedy
Poetic Syntax
Myth
7. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Pun
Dramatic Monologue
Ballad
Realism
8. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Dramatic Monologue
Dialect
Climax
Exposition
9. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Antagonist
Diction
Empathy
Myth
10. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Sprung rhythm
Couplet
Romance
Parody
11. Humorous imitation
Parody
Satire
Plot
Poetic Diction
12. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Context
Persuasive Purpose
Point of View
Exciting Force
13. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Tragedy
Rhyme
Interior Monologue
Euphony
14. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Theater
Expressive Purpose
Fable
Rhetorical Question
15. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Hyperbole
Sonnet
Allusion
Simile
16. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Conflict
Stereotype Character
Theme
Satire
17. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Symbol
Antithesis
Theme
Synecdoche
18. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Conclusion
First-person
Confidant
Foreshadowing
19. An idea that is implied or suggested
Parallelism
Mood
Connotation
Implication
20. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Rhyme
Interior Monologue
Point of View
Comedy
21. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Fable
Euphemism
Satire
Persuasive Purpose
22. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Complication
Poetic License
Style
Organizing Principles
23. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Imagery
Theme
Persona
Antithesis
24. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Couplet
Surrealism
Romance
Expressive Purpose
25. The perspective from which a story is told
Concrete Poetry
Exposition
Point of View
Euphemism
26. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Realism
Synecdoche
Satire
Irony
27. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
First-person
Oxymoron
Conclusion
Imagery
28. A final settlement
Dramatic Monologue
Dialect
Conclusion
Third-person
29. Conjoining contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Organizing Principles
Foreshadowing
Stream of Consciousness
30. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Flashback
Epigram
Superhero(ine)
Exciting Force
31. 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
Synecdoche
Narrative
Parody
Climax
32. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Antithesis
Myth
Third-person
Inference
33. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Thesis
Falling Action
Literal Meaning
Pastoral
34. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Consonance
Rhyme
Blank Verse
Allegory
35. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Expository Purpose
Setting
Tone
Narrative
36. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Dramatic Monologue
Complication
Expressive Purpose
37. Words mean exactly what they say
Literal Meaning
Rising Action
Atmosphere
Complication
38. Recurring at regular intervals
Aphorism
Free Verse
Rhythm
Rhyme
39. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Feeling
Theater
Folktale
Syntax
40. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Thesis
Anachronism
Analogy
Climate
41. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Free Verse
Crisis
Persona
Exposition
42. Emotional appeal
Pathos
Comedy
Superhero(ine)
Concrete Poetry
43. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Voice
Crisis
Aphorism
First-person
44. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Figure of Speech
Ballad
Satire
Narrative
45. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Rising Action
Figure of Speech
Apostrophe
Sarcasm
46. The process by which the writer develops a character
Antihero(ine)
Stream of Consciousness
Characterization
Setting
47. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Sprung rhythm
Conclusion
Aphorism
Organizing Principles
48. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Villain(ess)
Concrete Poetry
Blank Verse
Allusion
49. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Anastrophe
Exciting Force
Couplet
Apostrophe
50. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Interior Monologue
Figure of Speech
Paradox
Concrete Poetry