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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A word imitating the sound it represents
Fable
Soliloquy
Onomatopoeia
Third-person
2. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Narrative Purpose
Folktale
Figurative Language
Poetic License
3. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Introduction
Flashback
Thesis
Rhyme
4. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Connotation
Understatement
Fable
Resolution
5. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Myth
Implication
Complication
Rhythm
6. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Sequence Patterns
Pathos
Imagery
Inference
7. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Confidant
Voice
Elegy
Denouement
8. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Tale
Falling Action
Climate
Organizing Principles
9. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Informative Purpose
Foreshadowing
Rhyme Scheme
Myth
10. A contradiction or dilemma
Foreshadowing
Third-person
Paradox
Euphony
11. Before the main part or actually story
Introduction
Feeling
Third-person
Romance
12. Conjoining contradictory terms
Elegy
Theme
Oxymoron
Apostrophe
13. The final actions or solution of the plot
Romance
Persuasive Purpose
Resolution
Personification
14. (tall): short piece of fiction
Free Verse
Epithet
Flashback
Tale
15. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Informative Purpose
Maxim
Understatement
Imagery
16. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Perspective
Dialect
Anthropomorphism
Fable
17. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Atmosphere
Blank Verse
Poetic Syntax
Aside
18. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Comedy
Cliche
Dramatic Monologue
Connotation
19. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Onomatopoeia
Symbol
Comedy
Imagery
20. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Personification
Persuasive Purpose
Antihero(ine)
Oxymoron
21. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Persuasive Purpose
Falling Action
Personification
Euphony
22. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Metaphor
Allusion
Anastrophe
Thesis
23. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Setting
Flashback
Maxim
Inference
24. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Organizing Principles
Stanza
Alliteration
Anecdote
25. A group of lines in a poem
Implication
Romance
Inference
Stanza
26. A final settlement
Introduction
Personification
Conclusion
Comedy
27. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Foil
Persona
Ode
Monologue
28. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Argumentative purpose
Monologue
Allusion
Dialect
29. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Oxymoron
Setting
Monologue
Theme
30. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Expository Purpose
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Anthropomorphism
31. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Rhyme Scheme
Symbol
Assonance
Metaphor
32. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Characterization
Interior Monologue
Climax
Imagery
33. Series of events
Plot
Metaphor
Allusion
Blank Verse
34. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Farce
Perspective
Fable
Descriptive Purpose
35. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Superhero(ine)
Paradox
Imagery
Ode
36. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Poetic Diction
Theme
Surrealism
Empathy
37. The process by which the writer develops a character
Aside
Falling Action
Comedy
Characterization
38. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Perspective
Farce
Introduction
39. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Antithesis
Stereotype Character
Rhyme Scheme
Anastrophe
40. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Persuasive Purpose
Hyperbole
Superhero(ine)
Elegy
41. An idea that is implied or suggested
Metonymy
Connotation
Anachronism
Understatement
42. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Denouement
Antithesis
Exciting Force
Tragedy
43. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Theater
Anthropomorphism
Folktale
Antihero(ine)
44. Humorous imitation
Feeling
Parody
Setting
Tale
45. A play on words
Pun
Anachronism
Dramatic Monologue
Sequence Patterns
46. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Fable
Allegory
Epithet
Connotation
47. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Aphorism
Antithesis
Monologue
Flashback
48. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Persona
Sonnet
Allusion
Pathos
49. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Personification
Stream of Consciousness
Sequence Patterns
Apostrophe
50. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Realism
Epithet
Hero(ine)
Informative Purpose