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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. The prevailing psychological state
Climate
Epithet
Metaphor
Antihero(ine)
2. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Superhero(ine)
Myth
Blank Verse
Irony
3. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Tragedy
Epithet
Narrative Purpose
Pathos
4. The perspective from which a story is told
Third-person
Point of View
Stream of Consciousness
Parody
5. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Empathy
Allusion
Comedy
Stanza
6. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Confidant
Hyperbole
Anthropomorphism
Expressive Purpose
7. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Realism
Literal Meaning
Figure of Speech
Aphorism
8. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Soliloquy
Personification
Dramatic Monologue
Dialect
9. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Couplet
Farce
Narrative Purpose
Realism
10. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Ballad
Argumentative purpose
Villain(ess)
Parody
11. To display emotions and ideas
Oxymoron
Fable
Anachronism
Expressive Purpose
12. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Antagonist
Exciting Force
Thesis
Denouement
13. Suggestions or hints
Poetic License
Onomatopoeia
Mood
Implication
14. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Myth
Implication
Euphemism
Exposition
15. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Persuasive Purpose
Stream of Consciousness
Voice
Characterization
16. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Surrealism
Foil
Figure of Speech
Connotation
17. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Persona
Organizing Principles
Epithet
Conflict
18. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Euphemism
Assonance
Tragedy
Conflict
19. (tall): short piece of fiction
Soliloquy
Hero(ine)
Tale
Feeling
20. Point of view
Complication
Perspective
Alliteration
Expository Purpose
21. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Realism
Iambic Pentameter
Antihero(ine)
Ballad
22. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Poetic Diction
Diction
Paradox
Expressive Purpose
23. The freedom of a poet in writing
Poetic License
Hero(ine)
Allusion
Heroic Couplet
24. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Consonance
Symbol
Expository Purpose
First-person
25. Series of events
Perspective
Plot
Stereotype Character
Understatement
26. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Topic
Oxymoron
Inference
27. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Assonance
Monologue
Anastrophe
Hyperbole
28. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Folktale
Aside
Heroic Couplet
Satire
29. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Antithesis
Conflict
Parable
Thesis
30. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Empathy
Rhetorical Question
Allusion
Surrealism
31. Recurring at regular intervals
Figure of Speech
Rhythm
Elegy
Paradox
32. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Antihero(ine)
Denotation
Persuasive Purpose
Apostrophe
33. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Concrete Poetry
Informative Purpose
Farce
Implication
34. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Denouement
Style
Empathy
Pun
35. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Confidant
Syntax
Expressive Purpose
Foreshadowing
36. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Elegy
Aphorism
Rising Action
Irony
37. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Aside
Simile
Climate
Feeling
38. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Crisis
Satire
Farce
Poetic Syntax
39. A word imitating the sound it represents
Tragedy
Farce
Onomatopoeia
Poetic Diction
40. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Sonnet
Couplet
Dramatic Monologue
Inference
41. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Onomatopoeia
Theme
Figurative Language
Heroic Couplet
42. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Context
Anecdote
Parable
Foil
43. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Complication
Sarcasm
Alliteration
Free Verse
44. A group of lines in a poem
Aside
Comedy
Stanza
Tone
45. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Antihero(ine)
Dialect
Surrealism
Blank Verse
46. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Mood
Rhyme Scheme
Third-person
Synecdoche
47. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Organizing Principles
Folktale
Synecdoche
Foil
48. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Rhyme
Romance
Symbol
Persona
49. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Consonance
Farce
Foreshadowing
Flashback
50. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Hyperbole
Exciting Force
Assonance
Theater