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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Word choice
Expository Purpose
Diction
Rhythm
Thesis
2. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
Denotation
Euphony
Voice
3. To display emotions and ideas
Persona
Satire
Expressive Purpose
Literal Meaning
4. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Flashback
Folktale
Genre
Organizing Principles
5. The prevailing psychological state
Climate
Tragedy
Conclusion
Anastrophe
6. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Persuasive Purpose
Free Verse
Aphorism
Diction
7. A word imitating the sound it represents
Anastrophe
Antithesis
Soliloquy
Onomatopoeia
8. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Stream of Consciousness
Expository Purpose
Cliche
Stanza
9. Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
Personification
Climax
Fable
10. The main (good) character
Satire
Fable
Hero(ine)
Complication
11. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Persuasive Purpose
Poetic Syntax
Diction
Falling Action
12. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Euphemism
Parallelism
Characterization
Complication
13. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Monologue
Realism
Idiom
Organizing Principles
14. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Antithesis
Pathos
Mood
Inference
15. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Genre
Crisis
Sonnet
Poetic Syntax
16. The process by which the writer develops a character
Rhyme Scheme
Maxim
Characterization
Onomatopoeia
17. 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
Exposition
Characterization
Stereotype Character
Point of View
18. Point of view
Denotation
Theater
Perspective
Romance
19. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Syntax
Consonance
Figurative Language
Elegy
20. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Conflict
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Thesis
21. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Pathos
Flashback
Couplet
Argumentative purpose
22. A contradiction or dilemma
Theme
Topic
Paradox
Onomatopoeia
23. The freedom of a poet in writing
Narrative
Implication
Poetic License
Voice
24. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Allusion
Simile
Hero(ine)
Mood
25. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Concrete Poetry
Oxymoron
Confidant
Analogy
26. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Realism
Antihero(ine)
Organizing Principles
Fable
27. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Exciting Force
Expository Purpose
Persona
28. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Antithesis
Understatement
Inference
Dialect
29. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Apostrophe
Elegy
Topic
Resolution
30. A short story teaching a lesson
Free Verse
Persona
Parable
Dramatic Monologue
31. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Narrative
Paradox
Exciting Force
Antagonist
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
Metonymy
Dramatic Monologue
Personification
Romance
33. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Pathos
Concrete Poetry
Sonnet
Idiom
34. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Alliteration
Couplet
Euphemism
Literal Meaning
35. Suggestions or hints
Epigram
Implication
Falling Action
Romance
36. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Narrative
Confidant
Voice
Symbol
37. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Maxim
Anecdote
Metaphor
Comedy
38. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Narrative
Style
Apostrophe
Couplet
39. A play on words
Diction
Villain(ess)
Pun
Characterization
40. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Sequence Patterns
Stereotype Character
Stream of Consciousness
Myth
41. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Narrative
Imagery
Foil
Voice
42. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Antagonist
Rhyme Scheme
Theater
Myth
43. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Informative Purpose
Monologue
Couplet
Assonance
44. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Comedy
Foreshadowing
Sonnet
Folktale
45. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Assonance
Denotation
Parable
Pun
46. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Genre
Introduction
Theme
Realism
47. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Stream of Consciousness
Falling Action
Foil
Irony
48. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Figurative Language
Theater
Comedy
Flashback
49. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Heroic Couplet
Pun
Rhetorical Question
Euphemism
50. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Resolution
Figure of Speech
Poetic Syntax
Maxim