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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Narrative Purpose
Imagery
Antihero(ine)
Rhyme Scheme
2. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Style
Sarcasm
Descriptive Purpose
Argumentative purpose
3. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Argumentative purpose
Atmosphere
Setting
Epigram
4. Suggestions or hints
Consonance
Implication
Assonance
Voice
5. A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents - each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
Superhero(ine)
Exposition
Concrete Poetry
Iambic Pentameter
6. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Foreshadowing
Poetic Diction
Anachronism
Rhetorical Question
7. Using elements that can be either factual or impressionistic that act to 'paint a picture'
Narrative
Descriptive Purpose
Exciting Force
Ode
8. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Figurative Language
Soliloquy
Tone
Argumentative purpose
9. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Analogy
Anachronism
Rising Action
Atmosphere
10. Presentation of the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Idiom
Poetic License
Assonance
Stream of Consciousness
11. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Sequence Patterns
Dialect
Rising Action
Organizing Principles
12. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Sonnet
Poetic Diction
Genre
Heroic Couplet
13. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Elegy
Poetic Diction
Antagonist
Epigram
14. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Satire
Antihero(ine)
Informative Purpose
Hyperbole
15. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Exciting Force
Descriptive Purpose
Allegory
Couplet
16. The main (good) character
Diction
Hero(ine)
Exposition
Falling Action
17. The final actions or solution of the plot
Resolution
Sequence Patterns
Assonance
Myth
18. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Stereotype Character
Parallelism
Irony
Allegory
19. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Myth
Rhyme
Exposition
Monologue
20. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Narrative Purpose
Aside
Anthropomorphism
Literal Meaning
21. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Syntax
Anastrophe
Paradox
Folktale
22. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Ballad
Epithet
Sprung rhythm
Falling Action
23. A final settlement
Maxim
Ode
Epigram
Conclusion
24. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Topic
Genre
Superhero(ine)
Satire
25. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Personification
Comedy
Anastrophe
Denotation
26. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Mood
Elegy
Falling Action
Conclusion
27. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Stereotype Character
Denouement
Paradox
Confidant
28. 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
Point of View
Implication
Free Verse
29. The prevailing psychological state
Thesis
Personification
Climate
Symbol
30. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Villain(ess)
Conflict
Anastrophe
Analogy
31. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Villain(ess)
Pastoral
Narrative Purpose
Tone
32. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Stream of Consciousness
Foreshadowing
Romance
Syntax
33. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Idiom
Elegy
Farce
Monologue
34. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Conclusion
Symbol
Blank Verse
35. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Dialect
Heroic Couplet
Villain(ess)
Feeling
36. Subject
Metaphor
Genre
Symbol
Topic
37. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Sprung rhythm
Hero(ine)
Third-person
Alliteration
38. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Diction
Anthropomorphism
Irony
Elegy
39. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Apostrophe
Informative Purpose
Sprung rhythm
Tragedy
40. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Style
Maxim
Cliche
Context
41. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Plot
Monologue
Sprung rhythm
Aphorism
42. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Empathy
Denotation
Idiom
Monologue
43. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Epithet
Imagery
Thesis
Persona
44. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Couplet
Synecdoche
Assonance
Parallelism
45. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Argumentative purpose
Irony
Connotation
Foreshadowing
46. A group of lines in a poem
Foreshadowing
Comedy
Anecdote
Stanza
47. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Empathy
Farce
Third-person
Hyperbole
48. Word choice
Perspective
Understatement
Diction
Stanza
49. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Characterization
Dramatic Monologue
Cliche
Narrative Purpose
50. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Plot
Symbol
Genre
Theater