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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Foil
Simile
Implication
Aphorism
2. The prevailing psychological state
Denotation
Climate
Idiom
Introduction
3. Word choice
Surrealism
Diction
Imagery
Tragedy
4. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Parable
Euphemism
Flashback
Assonance
5. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Empathy
Expository Purpose
Imagery
Blank Verse
6. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Characterization
Poetic Syntax
Villain(ess)
Confidant
7. Recurring at regular intervals
Romance
Rhythm
Villain(ess)
Conflict
8. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Antihero(ine)
Poetic Diction
Exciting Force
Syntax
9. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Syntax
Interior Monologue
Falling Action
Surrealism
10. The final actions or solution of the plot
Resolution
Anachronism
Crisis
Farce
11. Symbolism; substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') or with which it is closely identified
Metonymy
Climate
Parable
Narrative Purpose
12. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Expository Purpose
Cliche
Ballad
Symbol
13. Series of events
Metaphor
Plot
Genre
Parallelism
14. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Characterization
Stanza
Couplet
Climate
15. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Falling Action
Tale
Monologue
Anachronism
16. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Imagery
Euphony
Elegy
Concrete Poetry
17. Before the main part or actually story
Personification
Introduction
Allusion
Foil
18. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Antihero(ine)
Theater
Organizing Principles
Flashback
19. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Conclusion
Apostrophe
Climax
Narrative
20. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Persuasive Purpose
Free Verse
Sarcasm
Tragedy
21. To display emotions and ideas
Point of View
Folktale
Expressive Purpose
Allusion
22. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Expressive Purpose
Setting
Narrative Purpose
Assonance
23. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Persona
Rhyme
Anthropomorphism
Myth
24. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Sequence Patterns
Comedy
Rhyme Scheme
Anastrophe
25. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Figurative Language
Stereotype Character
Euphemism
Idiom
26. A word imitating the sound it represents
Onomatopoeia
Hero(ine)
Diction
Parody
27. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Literal Meaning
Antihero(ine)
Atmosphere
Aphorism
28. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Informative Purpose
Romance
Denotation
Sonnet
29. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Euphemism
Hero(ine)
Ode
Anachronism
30. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Interior Monologue
Figurative Language
Poetic License
Couplet
31. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Mood
Figurative Language
Atmosphere
Literal Meaning
32. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Falling Action
Conflict
Anachronism
Poetic License
33. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Idiom
Perspective
Consonance
Complication
34. 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
Pathos
Empathy
Expressive Purpose
35. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Fable
Theme
Paradox
Tone
36. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Feeling
Pastoral
Anthropomorphism
Alliteration
37. Humorous imitation
Mood
Parody
Iambic Pentameter
Persuasive Purpose
38. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Context
Climax
Topic
Connotation
39. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Personification
Allegory
Maxim
Introduction
40. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Rhyme Scheme
Parable
Third-person
Conflict
41. An idea that is implied or suggested
Epithet
Denouement
Connotation
Blank Verse
42. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Empathy
Diction
Parallelism
Interior Monologue
43. Emotional appeal
Pathos
Exciting Force
Atmosphere
Satire
44. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Legend
Complication
Tragedy
Free Verse
45. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Analogy
Rhyme Scheme
Anachronism
Foil
46. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Connotation
Hero(ine)
Narrative Purpose
Euphemism
47. Dramatic speech to oneself
Alliteration
Topic
Soliloquy
Epithet
48. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Fable
Elegy
Conflict
Anecdote
49. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Perspective
Climate
Parable
Maxim
50. The main (good) character
Imagery
Hero(ine)
Farce
Cliche