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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Organizing Principles
Persuasive Purpose
Expressive Purpose
Anecdote
2. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Tale
Foreshadowing
Apostrophe
Analogy
3. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Characterization
Introduction
Sprung rhythm
Simile
4. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Diction
Satire
Atmosphere
Confidant
5. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Foil
Antithesis
Tale
Poetic Diction
6. A word imitating the sound it represents
Perspective
Onomatopoeia
Atmosphere
Villain(ess)
7. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Rising Action
Ode
Informative Purpose
Figure of Speech
8. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Informative Purpose
Parody
Cliche
Figurative Language
9. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Hyperbole
Poetic Diction
Irony
Consonance
10. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Rhyme Scheme
Falling Action
Epigram
Organizing Principles
11. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Rhyme Scheme
Blank Verse
Argumentative purpose
Concrete Poetry
12. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Denouement
Setting
Concrete Poetry
Tone
13. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Narrative Purpose
Perspective
Context
Allusion
14. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Theme
Syntax
Perspective
Folktale
15. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Rhythm
Superhero(ine)
Dialect
Poetic Syntax
16. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Theme
Idiom
Conflict
Farce
17. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Figurative Language
Synecdoche
Poetic License
Surrealism
18. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Interior Monologue
Onomatopoeia
Anecdote
Setting
19. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Alliteration
Sarcasm
Flashback
Connotation
20. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Inference
Implication
Falling Action
Couplet
21. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Satire
Understatement
Villain(ess)
Consonance
22. Exaggeration
Couplet
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Expressive Purpose
23. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Farce
Perspective
Theme
Poetic License
24. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Narrative Purpose
Oxymoron
Anthropomorphism
Expository Purpose
25. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Blank Verse
Pun
Exciting Force
Apostrophe
26. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Flashback
Epithet
Cliche
Concrete Poetry
27. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
Ode
Confidant
Flashback
28. Emotional appeal
Pathos
Genre
Folktale
Voice
29. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Stream of Consciousness
Assonance
Folktale
Fable
30. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Aside
Free Verse
Heroic Couplet
Narrative Purpose
31. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Tone
32. 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
Free Verse
Elegy
Stereotype Character
Rhyme Scheme
33. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Comedy
Anachronism
Hero(ine)
Realism
34. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Metonymy
Metaphor
Figure of Speech
Cliche
35. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Feeling
Elegy
Argumentative purpose
Imagery
36. A message that digresses from the main subject
Aside
Surrealism
Irony
Rhyme
37. 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
Conflict
Epithet
Metonymy
Poetic Syntax
38. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Dramatic Monologue
Legend
Exposition
Climate
39. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Expository Purpose
Mood
Synecdoche
Descriptive Purpose
40. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Elegy
Dialect
Couplet
Descriptive Purpose
41. An idea that is implied or suggested
Literal Meaning
Poetic Diction
Poetic License
Connotation
42. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Complication
Parody
Free Verse
Exposition
43. The freedom of a poet in writing
Argumentative purpose
Sonnet
Poetic License
Euphony
44. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Parody
Paradox
Maxim
Couplet
45. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Setting
Fable
Perspective
Cliche
46. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Tragedy
Heroic Couplet
Symbol
Comedy
47. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Stream of Consciousness
Parallelism
Perspective
Poetic Syntax
48. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Poetic License
Climax
Farce
Monologue
49. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Dialect
Poetic Syntax
Rhyme
Tragedy
50. The perspective from which a story is told
Myth
Argumentative purpose
Metonymy
Point of View