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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. 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
Soliloquy
Syntax
Stereotype Character
Elegy
2. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Foil
Aside
Cliche
Feeling
3. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Conflict
Rhyme Scheme
Rhyme
Style
4. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Stereotype Character
Rhyme
Style
Synecdoche
5. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Antithesis
Legend
Antagonist
Romance
6. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Stanza
Pastoral
Diction
Figure of Speech
7. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Narrative Purpose
Exposition
Rhyme Scheme
Setting
8. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Expository Purpose
Point of View
Setting
Tone
9. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Anastrophe
Denotation
Complication
Introduction
10. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
First-person
Concrete Poetry
Syntax
Introduction
11. 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
Stereotype Character
Feeling
Tale
Iambic Pentameter
12. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Alliteration
Understatement
Informative Purpose
Consonance
13. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Iambic Pentameter
Point of View
Falling Action
Allusion
14. A final settlement
Conclusion
Elegy
Climate
Maxim
15. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Poetic Syntax
Topic
Blank Verse
Heroic Couplet
16. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Mood
Metonymy
Rising Action
Synecdoche
17. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Stream of Consciousness
Free Verse
Aside
Antithesis
18. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Rhythm
Figure of Speech
Pathos
Context
19. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Fable
Simile
Euphemism
Sarcasm
20. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Pathos
Rhyme Scheme
Elegy
Persuasive Purpose
21. Suggestions or hints
Narrative
Parallelism
Implication
Maxim
22. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Persuasive Purpose
Denotation
Flashback
Crisis
23. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Synecdoche
Foil
Interior Monologue
Empathy
24. Conjoining contradictory terms
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Heroic Couplet
Oxymoron
25. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Stereotype Character
Folktale
Third-person
Complication
26. The perspective from which a story is told
Dramatic Monologue
Conflict
Point of View
Apostrophe
27. Exaggeration
Rhythm
Irony
Hyperbole
Cliche
28. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Rhyme
Euphemism
Rhyme Scheme
Maxim
29. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Hero(ine)
Assonance
Symbol
Foil
30. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Aphorism
Rhetorical Question
Superhero(ine)
Anastrophe
31. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Rhythm
Rhetorical Question
Feeling
Aphorism
32. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Metonymy
Aphorism
Comedy
Symbol
33. Subject
Anecdote
Topic
Satire
Flashback
34. Words mean exactly what they say
Literal Meaning
Symbol
Rhyme
Genre
35. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Satire
Sequence Patterns
Mood
Ballad
36. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Feeling
Dialect
Foreshadowing
Metonymy
37. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Rising Action
Cliche
Rhyme
Poetic Syntax
38. Dictionary definition of a word
Oxymoron
Pastoral
Denotation
Paradox
39. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Aside
Monologue
Theme
Imagery
40. (tall): short piece of fiction
Tale
Resolution
Rhythm
Sonnet
41. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Irony
Tale
Blank Verse
Climax
42. The freedom of a poet in writing
Myth
Parable
Satire
Poetic License
43. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Conflict
Argumentative purpose
Genre
Poetic License
44. Dramatic speech to oneself
Poetic License
Atmosphere
Soliloquy
Elegy
45. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Allegory
Anachronism
Couplet
Parody
46. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Free Verse
Soliloquy
Villain(ess)
Monologue
47. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
First-person
Ballad
Hero(ine)
Tale
48. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Satire
Hero(ine)
Superhero(ine)
Theme
49. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Epigram
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
50. An idea that is implied or suggested
Iambic Pentameter
Argumentative purpose
Connotation
Denouement