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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A short story teaching a lesson
Parable
Surrealism
Ode
Informative Purpose
2. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Epithet
Consonance
Paradox
Rhyme
3. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Pun
Poetic Diction
Tragedy
Narrative Purpose
4. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Understatement
Feeling
Poetic Diction
Narrative Purpose
5. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Resolution
Persuasive Purpose
Couplet
Ballad
6. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Climate
Foil
Plot
Pathos
7. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Tone
Foreshadowing
Consonance
Conflict
8. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Fable
Diction
Hero(ine)
Symbol
9. Suggestions or hints
Free Verse
Implication
Figure of Speech
Onomatopoeia
10. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Folktale
Idiom
Persuasive Purpose
Allusion
11. A play on words
Farce
Rising Action
Pun
Metaphor
12. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Expository Purpose
Setting
Third-person
Implication
13. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Pastoral
Heroic Couplet
Farce
Couplet
14. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Ballad
Figure of Speech
Poetic Diction
Simile
15. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Ode
Rising Action
Literal Meaning
Organizing Principles
16. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Theme
Context
Atmosphere
Crisis
17. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Rhyme
Climax
Falling Action
Allegory
18. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Anachronism
Hyperbole
Antithesis
Fable
19. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Context
Rhyme Scheme
Point of View
Superhero(ine)
20. Series of events
Literal Meaning
Plot
Hyperbole
Crisis
21. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Plot
Dramatic Monologue
Theme
Oxymoron
22. The prevailing psychological state
Stereotype Character
Figurative Language
Climate
Superhero(ine)
23. Point of view
Apostrophe
Perspective
Stream of Consciousness
Informative Purpose
24. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Pastoral
Feeling
Figure of Speech
Free Verse
25. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
Allusion
Empathy
Dialect
26. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Farce
Inference
Satire
Exciting Force
27. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Parody
Persona
Synecdoche
Simile
28. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Aside
Atmosphere
Empathy
Descriptive Purpose
29. Recurring at regular intervals
Stanza
Foreshadowing
Rhythm
Rhyme Scheme
30. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Argumentative purpose
Pun
Persona
Synecdoche
31. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Anachronism
Exposition
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
32. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Metaphor
Villain(ess)
Heroic Couplet
Denouement
33. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Empathy
Sonnet
Personification
Satire
34. The final actions or solution of the plot
Resolution
Allusion
Climate
Pathos
35. Subject
Parody
Simile
Blank Verse
Topic
36. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Myth
Concrete Poetry
Satire
Conflict
37. A message that digresses from the main subject
Rhetorical Question
Aside
Stanza
Poetic License
38. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Anastrophe
Elegy
Maxim
Consonance
39. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Realism
Conclusion
Epigram
Allusion
40. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Sarcasm
Foil
Parallelism
Plot
41. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Narrative Purpose
Myth
Farce
Analogy
42. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Couplet
Euphemism
Inference
Topic
43. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Rhyme
Synecdoche
First-person
Climax
44. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Epigram
Style
Organizing Principles
Romance
45. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Maxim
Free Verse
Falling Action
46. Before the main part or actually story
Tragedy
Topic
Oxymoron
Introduction
47. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Narrative Purpose
Antagonist
Informative Purpose
Idiom
48. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Denouement
Conclusion
Literal Meaning
Topic
49. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Comedy
Euphemism
Rhythm
Tone
50. 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
Organizing Principles
Blank Verse
Exciting Force
Stereotype Character