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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Elegy
Free Verse
Ode
Superhero(ine)
2. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Complication
Interior Monologue
Foreshadowing
Feeling
3. The perspective from which a story is told
Monologue
Descriptive Purpose
Point of View
Hero(ine)
4. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Symbol
Mood
Exposition
Tone
5. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Folktale
Fable
Characterization
6. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Consonance
Falling Action
Third-person
Interior Monologue
7. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Poetic License
Anthropomorphism
Style
Figurative Language
8. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Folktale
Analogy
Concrete Poetry
Context
9. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Figurative Language
Exciting Force
Romance
Poetic License
10. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Ballad
Euphony
Pun
Introduction
11. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Satire
Poetic License
Interior Monologue
Climax
12. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Symbol
Ode
Sonnet
Simile
13. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Voice
Exposition
Maxim
Alliteration
14. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Ode
Allusion
Legend
Figure of Speech
15. 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
Poetic Syntax
Metonymy
Euphemism
Context
16. Conjoining contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Context
Inference
Rhetorical Question
17. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Satire
Climate
Rhetorical Question
Atmosphere
18. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Pastoral
Allusion
Epigram
Narrative Purpose
19. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Monologue
Antithesis
First-person
Poetic Diction
20. Emotional appeal
Dramatic Monologue
Assonance
Metaphor
Pathos
21. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Stereotype Character
Empathy
Surrealism
Complication
22. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Sarcasm
Personification
Mood
Rising Action
23. A message that digresses from the main subject
Hero(ine)
Aside
Pathos
Idiom
24. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Organizing Principles
Genre
Theme
Understatement
25. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Denouement
Figure of Speech
Organizing Principles
Resolution
26. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Point of View
Farce
Persona
Expository Purpose
27. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Monologue
Allegory
Couplet
Folktale
28. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Personification
Aphorism
Exciting Force
Synecdoche
29. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Poetic Syntax
Flashback
Allegory
Persuasive Purpose
30. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Interior Monologue
Denouement
Metaphor
Complication
31. Words mean exactly what they say
Implication
Denouement
Literal Meaning
Anecdote
32. Series of events
Plot
Elegy
Symbol
Antithesis
33. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Style
Introduction
Heroic Couplet
Oxymoron
34. The final actions or solution of the plot
Anecdote
Resolution
Assonance
Mood
35. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Epithet
Personification
First-person
Dialect
36. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Tragedy
Mood
Blank Verse
Paradox
37. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Exposition
Denouement
Idiom
Comedy
38. Subject
Anecdote
Villain(ess)
Understatement
Topic
39. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Paradox
Epigram
Climate
Organizing Principles
40. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Soliloquy
Persuasive Purpose
Sprung rhythm
Poetic Diction
41. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Antithesis
Metonymy
Apostrophe
Oxymoron
42. Point of view
Alliteration
Tone
Parable
Perspective
43. Recurring at regular intervals
Monologue
Confidant
Rhythm
Voice
44. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Perspective
Onomatopoeia
Free Verse
Ode
45. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Genre
Apostrophe
Resolution
Allusion
46. To display emotions and ideas
Denotation
Irony
Expressive Purpose
Poetic Syntax
47. A word imitating the sound it represents
Onomatopoeia
Voice
Farce
Poetic Syntax
48. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Iambic Pentameter
Figure of Speech
Antagonist
Farce
49. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Flashback
Exciting Force
Poetic License
50. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Elegy
Anastrophe
Euphony
Denouement