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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Consonance
Satire
Fable
Voice
2. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Perspective
Conclusion
Argumentative purpose
Antithesis
3. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Parody
Informative Purpose
Comedy
Imagery
4. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Farce
Literal Meaning
Soliloquy
Theme
5. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Allegory
Pastoral
Villain(ess)
Realism
6. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Poetic Syntax
Crisis
Maxim
Conclusion
7. Subject
Topic
Foil
Genre
Introduction
8. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Feeling
Organizing Principles
Exciting Force
Consonance
9. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Metonymy
Organizing Principles
Iambic Pentameter
Informative Purpose
10. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Resolution
Falling Action
Thesis
Cliche
11. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
Rhetorical Question
Rhythm
Stanza
12. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Genre
Romance
Antithesis
Voice
13. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Inference
Satire
Onomatopoeia
Cliche
14. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Heroic Couplet
Metaphor
Narrative Purpose
Thesis
15. A group of lines in a poem
Apostrophe
Sequence Patterns
Ballad
Stanza
16. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Theater
Monologue
Myth
Figurative Language
17. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Parallelism
Oxymoron
Conclusion
Complication
18. A word imitating the sound it represents
Myth
Analogy
Onomatopoeia
Complication
19. 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
Sonnet
Iambic Pentameter
Conclusion
Metonymy
20. Words mean exactly what they say
Conclusion
Soliloquy
Literal Meaning
Plot
21. A short story teaching a lesson
Parable
Mood
Antihero(ine)
Paradox
22. The prevailing psychological state
Anthropomorphism
Concrete Poetry
Climate
Simile
23. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Antagonist
Romance
Climax
Organizing Principles
24. Before the main part or actually story
Ode
Soliloquy
Third-person
Introduction
25. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Resolution
Myth
Antihero(ine)
Euphony
26. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Flashback
Sarcasm
Implication
Onomatopoeia
27. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Euphemism
Epigram
Confidant
Foil
28. 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
Tale
Fable
Euphemism
Synecdoche
29. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Tone
Romance
Parody
Plot
30. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Couplet
Syntax
Myth
Sequence Patterns
31. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Denotation
Antithesis
Maxim
Soliloquy
32. Series of events
Plot
Pun
Villain(ess)
Euphemism
33. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Allegory
Syntax
Monologue
Tone
34. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Personification
Theme
Climax
Exciting Force
35. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Simile
Expository Purpose
Anachronism
Parallelism
36. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Irony
Fable
Couplet
Cliche
37. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Exposition
Thesis
Falling Action
Romance
38. The freedom of a poet in writing
Diction
Couplet
Poetic License
Interior Monologue
39. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Style
Theme
Denotation
Alliteration
40. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Pun
Tone
Antihero(ine)
Sequence Patterns
41. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Expository Purpose
Sprung rhythm
Rhyme
Parallelism
42. The opposite of exaggeration; less than intended.
Understatement
Voice
Allegory
Ode
43. A contradiction or dilemma
Paradox
Organizing Principles
Poetic Diction
Anachronism
44. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Iambic Pentameter
Heroic Couplet
Ballad
Descriptive Purpose
45. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Theater
Atmosphere
Allegory
Epigram
46. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Theme
Elegy
Assonance
Stereotype Character
47. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
First-person
Legend
Superhero(ine)
Poetic License
48. Conjoining contradictory terms
Farce
Empathy
Pastoral
Oxymoron
49. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Tone
Mood
Point of View
Antagonist
50. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Aphorism
Rhyme
Allusion
Poetic Syntax
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