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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Figure of Speech
Poetic License
Assonance
Poetic Syntax
2. (tall): short piece of fiction
Tale
Introduction
Cliche
Third-person
3. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Heroic Couplet
Anastrophe
Genre
Perspective
4. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Empathy
Rhythm
Analogy
Feeling
5. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Dialect
Exposition
Interior Monologue
Couplet
6. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Setting
Sonnet
Sarcasm
Legend
7. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Anecdote
Euphony
Farce
Confidant
8. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Interior Monologue
Analogy
Parallelism
Hyperbole
9. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Complication
Thesis
Persuasive Purpose
Elegy
10. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Aphorism
Cliche
Euphony
Pun
11. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Consonance
Euphemism
Sonnet
Persuasive Purpose
12. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Farce
Metonymy
Atmosphere
13. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Poetic License
Expressive Purpose
Consonance
Climax
14. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Cliche
Monologue
Epithet
Expressive Purpose
15. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Literal Meaning
Mood
Expressive Purpose
Introduction
16. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Assonance
Understatement
Voice
Exciting Force
17. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Metaphor
Theater
Pun
Sequence Patterns
18. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Narrative
Heroic Couplet
Mood
Poetic Diction
19. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Stream of Consciousness
Exposition
Antagonist
Complication
20. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Implication
Soliloquy
Simile
Informative Purpose
21. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
First-person
Argumentative purpose
Foreshadowing
Maxim
22. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Empathy
Folktale
Thesis
Informative Purpose
23. A short story teaching a lesson
Synecdoche
Thesis
Stanza
Parable
24. The final actions or solution of the plot
Rhythm
Villain(ess)
Narrative Purpose
Resolution
25. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Anecdote
Sarcasm
Epithet
Antihero(ine)
26. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Euphemism
Understatement
Perspective
Surrealism
27. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Implication
Stereotype Character
Foreshadowing
Antihero(ine)
28. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Heroic Couplet
Oxymoron
Implication
Ode
29. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Anecdote
Flashback
Figurative Language
Folktale
30. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Sarcasm
Confidant
Hyperbole
Personification
31. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Realism
First-person
Implication
Allusion
32. Recurring at regular intervals
Denotation
Apostrophe
First-person
Rhythm
33. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Parallelism
Exposition
Imagery
Denotation
34. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Blank Verse
Narrative Purpose
Anastrophe
Setting
35. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Expository Purpose
Complication
Crisis
Blank Verse
36. A play on words
Pun
Dramatic Monologue
Figure of Speech
Exciting Force
37. A contradiction or dilemma
Paradox
Conclusion
Consonance
Anecdote
38. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Realism
Allegory
Myth
Folktale
39. Series of events
Plot
Sequence Patterns
Superhero(ine)
Setting
40. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Aside
Comedy
Confidant
Thesis
41. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Symbol
Myth
Concrete Poetry
Dialect
42. 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
Soliloquy
Parody
Sequence Patterns
Iambic Pentameter
43. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Oxymoron
Antihero(ine)
Figure of Speech
Interior Monologue
44. An idea that is implied or suggested
Crisis
Soliloquy
Metaphor
Connotation
45. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Folktale
Sonnet
Metaphor
Analogy
46. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Anthropomorphism
Genre
Monologue
Syntax
47. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Epigram
Superhero(ine)
Fable
Third-person
48. Point of view
Simile
Perspective
Tone
Farce
49. The prevailing psychological state
Fable
Anthropomorphism
Climate
Legend
50. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Poetic Syntax
Figure of Speech
Diction
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