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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Elegy
Resolution
Comedy
2. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Imagery
Crisis
Irony
Climax
3. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Pun
Context
Elegy
Folktale
4. To display emotions and ideas
Onomatopoeia
Soliloquy
Expressive Purpose
Cliche
5. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Anachronism
Figurative Language
Sarcasm
Poetic Diction
6. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Consonance
Allegory
Euphemism
Resolution
7. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Exposition
Pastoral
Folktale
Organizing Principles
8. Subject
Onomatopoeia
Rising Action
Topic
Confidant
9. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Heroic Couplet
Irony
Dialect
Personification
10. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Characterization
Exposition
Figure of Speech
Maxim
11. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Denotation
Couplet
Falling Action
Exciting Force
12. The freedom of a poet in writing
Genre
Concrete Poetry
Assonance
Poetic License
13. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Pastoral
Genre
Flashback
Poetic Syntax
14. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Maxim
Characterization
Poetic Diction
Empathy
15. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Anthropomorphism
Personification
Introduction
Characterization
16. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Blank Verse
Third-person
Alliteration
Poetic Diction
17. Dictionary definition of a word
Atmosphere
Denotation
Third-person
Point of View
18. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Implication
Sprung rhythm
Anachronism
Interior Monologue
19. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Anthropomorphism
Apostrophe
Pathos
Exciting Force
20. (tall): short piece of fiction
Informative Purpose
Tale
Literal Meaning
Exciting Force
21. Emotional appeal
Pathos
Hyperbole
Euphony
Poetic Syntax
22. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Onomatopoeia
Sarcasm
Epithet
Apostrophe
23. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Persuasive Purpose
Topic
Exposition
Characterization
24. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Cliche
Narrative
Heroic Couplet
Setting
25. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Foil
Genre
Organizing Principles
Assonance
26. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Blank Verse
Parable
Simile
Apostrophe
27. A play on words
Diction
Flashback
Pun
Thesis
28. Humorous imitation
Poetic Diction
Alliteration
Parody
Antagonist
29. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Legend
Parody
Maxim
Synecdoche
30. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Aside
Tragedy
Understatement
Dialect
31. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Flashback
Point of View
Theater
Anachronism
32. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Pastoral
Mood
Paradox
Consonance
33. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Rising Action
Metaphor
Figurative Language
Romance
34. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Synecdoche
Monologue
Pathos
Understatement
35. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Figure of Speech
Metaphor
Poetic Diction
Rhetorical Question
36. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Stereotype Character
Rhyme Scheme
Setting
Surrealism
37. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Anthropomorphism
Inference
Confidant
Sprung rhythm
38. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Complication
Dialect
Farce
Idiom
39. The process by which the writer develops a character
Couplet
Characterization
Fable
Poetic Diction
40. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Characterization
Free Verse
Maxim
Rhetorical Question
41. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Narrative Purpose
Aphorism
Maxim
Personification
42. Recurring at regular intervals
Rhythm
Confidant
Rhetorical Question
Surrealism
43. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Complication
Rhythm
Blank Verse
Narrative Purpose
44. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Maxim
Characterization
Rhythm
Persona
45. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Ballad
Superhero(ine)
Foil
Anthropomorphism
46. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Assonance
Tale
Folktale
Antagonist
47. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Topic
Syntax
Understatement
Villain(ess)
48. A message that digresses from the main subject
Pastoral
Synecdoche
Aside
Poetic Diction
49. A final settlement
Narrative Purpose
Diction
Conclusion
Fable
50. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Understatement
Pun
Epithet