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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Suggestions or hints
Simile
Satire
Anthropomorphism
Implication
2. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Euphony
Expository Purpose
Expressive Purpose
Interior Monologue
3. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Anecdote
Mood
Setting
Crisis
4. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Parody
Atmosphere
Superhero(ine)
Poetic Diction
5. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Sonnet
Connotation
Persuasive Purpose
Farce
6. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Folktale
Monologue
Idiom
7. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Genre
Anastrophe
Ballad
Implication
8. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Atmosphere
Sarcasm
Allegory
Blank Verse
9. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Metaphor
Euphony
Satire
Poetic Syntax
10. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Figurative Language
Rhetorical Question
Foreshadowing
Argumentative purpose
11. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Flashback
Assonance
Rhythm
12. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Alliteration
Legend
Elegy
Descriptive Purpose
13. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Empathy
Anachronism
Sprung rhythm
Confidant
14. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Plot
Poetic License
Falling Action
Style
15. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Pun
Argumentative purpose
Denouement
16. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Aside
Rhetorical Question
Confidant
Sarcasm
17. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Pun
Comedy
Climate
Fable
18. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Figure of Speech
Poetic Syntax
Villain(ess)
Elegy
19. A play on words
Pun
Conflict
Realism
Crisis
20. Presentation of the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Stream of Consciousness
Farce
Dialect
Metaphor
21. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Setting
Couplet
Hyperbole
Tragedy
22. A word imitating the sound it represents
Pun
Onomatopoeia
Synecdoche
Metaphor
23. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (or vice versa) - the specific for the general (or vice versa) - or the material for the thing made from it
Synecdoche
Ballad
Introduction
Parable
24. Emotional appeal
Tone
Parody
Theater
Pathos
25. Dramatic speech to oneself
Personification
Surrealism
Idiom
Soliloquy
26. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Flashback
Anthropomorphism
Symbol
Assonance
27. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Antagonist
Sarcasm
Assonance
Poetic Diction
28. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Rhyme
Myth
Narrative Purpose
Couplet
29. Recurring at regular intervals
Rhythm
Poetic Syntax
Hero(ine)
Exciting Force
30. Humorous imitation
Fable
Comedy
Parody
Figure of Speech
31. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Confidant
Understatement
Persuasive Purpose
Parable
32. 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
Assonance
Metonymy
Paradox
Pathos
33. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Implication
Exposition
Parallelism
Imagery
34. A fixed idea or conception of a character or an idea that does not allow for any individuality; often based on religious/social/racial prejudices
Stereotype Character
Point of View
Flashback
Context
35. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Flashback
Complication
Foreshadowing
Expressive Purpose
36. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Sarcasm
Empathy
Organizing Principles
Stream of Consciousness
37. (tall): short piece of fiction
Free Verse
Sonnet
Tale
Ode
38. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Pathos
Descriptive Purpose
Stereotype Character
Flashback
39. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Figurative Language
Analogy
Tale
Onomatopoeia
40. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Argumentative purpose
Perspective
Point of View
Pathos
41. A message that digresses from the main subject
Perspective
Aside
Resolution
Epithet
42. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Denotation
Epigram
Expressive Purpose
Free Verse
43. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Stream of Consciousness
Free Verse
Falling Action
Surrealism
44. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Dramatic Monologue
Euphemism
Parable
Complication
45. The series of conflicts building up to a climax
Foreshadowing
Atmosphere
Rising Action
Metonymy
46. The main (good) character
Rhyme
Parallelism
Informative Purpose
Hero(ine)
47. Words mean exactly what they say
Imagery
Literal Meaning
Tragedy
Stereotype Character
48. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Context
Hyperbole
Implication
Syntax
49. Subject
Topic
Farce
Alliteration
Climax
50. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Villain(ess)
Consonance
Synecdoche
Folktale