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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Monologue
Epithet
Ode
Anachronism
2. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Climax
Descriptive Purpose
Exciting Force
Metaphor
3. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Inference
Exposition
Crisis
Tale
4. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Descriptive Purpose
Dramatic Monologue
Paradox
Climax
5. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Romance
Elegy
Style
Dialect
6. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Fable
Literal Meaning
Mood
Narrative Purpose
7. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Point of View
Ode
Argumentative purpose
Synecdoche
8. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Confidant
Sarcasm
Sequence Patterns
Falling Action
9. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Pun
Narrative
Connotation
10. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Poetic Syntax
Plot
Confidant
Style
11. Words mean exactly what they say
Literal Meaning
Fable
Climate
Allusion
12. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Legend
Irony
Parody
Concrete Poetry
13. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Third-person
Antagonist
Rhetorical Question
Rhyme Scheme
14. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Descriptive Purpose
Analogy
Rhythm
15. Dramatic speech to oneself
Parallelism
Rhyme
Exciting Force
Soliloquy
16. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Sarcasm
Couplet
Apostrophe
Confidant
17. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Cliche
Genre
Maxim
Pathos
18. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Flashback
Theater
Topic
Apostrophe
19. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Pun
Anthropomorphism
Pastoral
Parody
20. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Feeling
Ballad
Anachronism
Parody
21. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Allusion
Romance
Inference
Aside
22. The main (good) character
Atmosphere
Couplet
Ballad
Hero(ine)
23. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Organizing Principles
Anachronism
Folktale
Style
24. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Metaphor
Introduction
Stream of Consciousness
Pastoral
25. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Falling Action
Rhyme Scheme
Organizing Principles
Sonnet
26. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Complication
Context
Feeling
Symbol
27. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Myth
Onomatopoeia
Poetic License
Irony
28. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Resolution
Third-person
Antithesis
Euphemism
29. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Connotation
Surrealism
Parody
Theme
30. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Setting
Paradox
Topic
Anecdote
31. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Conflict
Theater
Aphorism
Legend
32. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Personification
Context
Surrealism
Sequence Patterns
33. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Informative Purpose
Climax
Persuasive Purpose
Foreshadowing
34. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Theme
Voice
Elegy
Climax
35. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
Figure of Speech
Apostrophe
36. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Epithet
Foreshadowing
Understatement
Implication
37. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Oxymoron
Imagery
Consonance
Resolution
38. Before the main part or actually story
Anastrophe
Epigram
Persuasive Purpose
Introduction
39. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Analogy
Figure of Speech
Anastrophe
Argumentative purpose
40. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Setting
Introduction
Hyperbole
Narrative
41. The process by which the writer develops a character
Cliche
Expressive Purpose
Anastrophe
Characterization
42. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Superhero(ine)
Context
Metonymy
Implication
43. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Complication
Antihero(ine)
Blank Verse
Denouement
44. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Third-person
Style
Genre
Iambic Pentameter
45. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Theater
Foreshadowing
Oxymoron
Fable
46. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Anecdote
Anachronism
Context
Tragedy
47. Dictionary definition of a word
Pun
Allegory
Poetic License
Denotation
48. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Rhyme Scheme
Free Verse
Climax
Argumentative purpose
49. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Simile
Interior Monologue
Mood
Style
50. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Mood
Conclusion
Climate
Assonance