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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Anecdote
Climax
Perspective
Consonance
2. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Tale
Legend
Allegory
Paradox
3. Exaggeration
Rising Action
Tragedy
Hyperbole
Hero(ine)
4. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Euphemism
Argumentative purpose
Poetic License
Concrete Poetry
5. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Anthropomorphism
Narrative Purpose
Personification
Dramatic Monologue
6. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Couplet
Perspective
Simile
Poetic Diction
7. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Expository Purpose
Characterization
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
8. A contradiction or dilemma
Rising Action
Feeling
Paradox
Denotation
9. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Organizing Principles
Denouement
Atmosphere
Irony
10. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Poetic Diction
Point of View
Denotation
Atmosphere
11. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Stream of Consciousness
Stanza
Expository Purpose
Rhetorical Question
12. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Confidant
Couplet
Onomatopoeia
Descriptive Purpose
13. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Antagonist
Hero(ine)
Pastoral
Tragedy
14. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Antihero(ine)
Persuasive Purpose
Concrete Poetry
Legend
15. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Comedy
Confidant
Thesis
Style
16. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Irony
Synecdoche
Sarcasm
Tone
17. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Rising Action
Exposition
Couplet
Soliloquy
18. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Figurative Language
Exciting Force
Thesis
Antagonist
19. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Romance
Concrete Poetry
Context
Euphemism
20. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Stream of Consciousness
Anthropomorphism
Interior Monologue
Tale
21. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Aside
Ballad
Theater
Personification
22. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Onomatopoeia
Realism
Expository Purpose
Resolution
23. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Denotation
Comedy
Anastrophe
Consonance
24. Humorous imitation
Parody
Flashback
Imagery
Anachronism
25. The prevailing psychological state
Denouement
Stream of Consciousness
Climate
Euphony
26. A play on words
Symbol
Myth
Expository Purpose
Pun
27. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Implication
Parody
Blank Verse
Sarcasm
28. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Exposition
Idiom
Elegy
Poetic License
29. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Hero(ine)
Heroic Couplet
Blank Verse
Epithet
30. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Theme
Organizing Principles
Monologue
Mood
31. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Topic
Third-person
Sprung rhythm
Symbol
32. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Conflict
Comedy
Simile
Onomatopoeia
33. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Stereotype Character
Parody
Complication
Third-person
34. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Persona
Conclusion
Parable
Metaphor
35. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Climate
Parable
Cliche
Satire
36. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Style
Allegory
Interior Monologue
Parable
37. An idea that is implied or suggested
Monologue
Hyperbole
Connotation
Simile
38. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Euphony
Alliteration
Free Verse
Pastoral
39. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Narrative Purpose
Poetic Diction
Informative Purpose
Simile
40. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Descriptive Purpose
Farce
Metonymy
Sequence Patterns
41. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Flashback
Setting
Legend
Maxim
42. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Foil
Falling Action
Parallelism
Expressive Purpose
43. Point of view
Theater
Perspective
Surrealism
Crisis
44. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Antithesis
Tone
Myth
Falling Action
45. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Denouement
Flashback
Antithesis
Superhero(ine)
46. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Aside
Dramatic Monologue
Villain(ess)
Syntax
47. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Figure of Speech
Concrete Poetry
Cliche
Genre
48. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Antithesis
Allusion
Rhyme
Rhetorical Question
49. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Foreshadowing
Myth
Assonance
Informative Purpose
50. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Feeling
Synecdoche
Pathos
Sprung rhythm