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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Blank Verse
Free Verse
Expository Purpose
Voice
2. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Theme
Blank Verse
Narrative Purpose
Anthropomorphism
3. Opposition between characters or forces (especially motivating the development of the plot)
Figure of Speech
Conflict
Synecdoche
Voice
4. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Tragedy
Rhetorical Question
Anastrophe
Flashback
5. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Implication
Allusion
Epigram
Sequence Patterns
6. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Mood
Anastrophe
Stanza
Allusion
7. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Heroic Couplet
Euphony
Satire
8. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Sprung rhythm
Concrete Poetry
Anachronism
Persona
9. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Symbol
Persuasive Purpose
Pun
Exposition
10. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Confidant
Exciting Force
Ode
Realism
11. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Anachronism
Third-person
Rhetorical Question
Heroic Couplet
12. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Exposition
Anthropomorphism
Antagonist
Sonnet
13. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Rhetorical Question
Parable
Complication
Metaphor
14. A contradiction or dilemma
Crisis
Setting
Anecdote
Paradox
15. The perspective from which a story is told
Pastoral
Point of View
Onomatopoeia
Pun
16. Emotional appeal
Pathos
Farce
Anecdote
Antagonist
17. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Organizing Principles
Sarcasm
Symbol
Parable
18. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Narrative Purpose
Pastoral
Context
Fable
19. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Tone
Dramatic Monologue
Antagonist
Legend
20. Exaggeration
Rising Action
Synecdoche
Personification
Hyperbole
21. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Synecdoche
Rhetorical Question
Poetic Syntax
Voice
22. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Parallelism
Denouement
Figure of Speech
Foil
23. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Symbol
Sarcasm
Rhetorical Question
Antihero(ine)
24. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Conclusion
Genre
Denotation
Point of View
25. Agreeable - pleasant - harmonious sound
Legend
Anthropomorphism
Euphony
Tragedy
26. 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
Consonance
Informative Purpose
Metonymy
Theater
27. (usually long) dramatic speech by a single speaker
Iambic Pentameter
Monologue
Rising Action
Oxymoron
28. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Sprung rhythm
Hyperbole
Surrealism
Hero(ine)
29. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Feeling
Interior Monologue
Introduction
30. Subject
Informative Purpose
Mood
Ballad
Topic
31. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Realism
Heroic Couplet
Expressive Purpose
Implication
32. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Anecdote
Epithet
Anthropomorphism
Exciting Force
33. Word choice
Diction
Narrative
Simile
Iambic Pentameter
34. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Denouement
Ballad
Maxim
Poetic License
35. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Euphony
Hero(ine)
Allegory
Apostrophe
36. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Sarcasm
Crisis
Epigram
Exposition
37. Words mean exactly what they say
Poetic Syntax
Literal Meaning
Euphemism
Onomatopoeia
38. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Persona
Aphorism
Tone
Cliche
39. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy; accepting the facts
Stanza
Iambic Pentameter
Expository Purpose
Realism
40. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Denouement
Point of View
Informative Purpose
Literal Meaning
41. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Exposition
Characterization
Synecdoche
Argumentative purpose
42. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Irony
Foil
Free Verse
Sonnet
43. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Personification
Myth
Farce
Sonnet
44. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Rhythm
Climate
Conclusion
Complication
45. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Euphemism
Anastrophe
Alliteration
Iambic Pentameter
46. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Rhyme Scheme
Allegory
Falling Action
Figurative Language
47. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Anecdote
Dialect
Rising Action
Complication
48. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Analogy
Idiom
Conflict
Empathy
49. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Maxim
Point of View
Analogy
Heroic Couplet
50. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
Surrealism
Onomatopoeia
Fable
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