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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Apostrophe
Anecdote
Confidant
Satire
2. (tall): short piece of fiction
Syntax
Climate
Tale
Diction
3. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Setting
Stereotype Character
Aside
Expository Purpose
4. The freedom of a poet in writing
Flashback
First-person
Poetic License
Foil
5. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Interior Monologue
Perspective
Rhyme Scheme
Couplet
6. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Blank Verse
Antithesis
Villain(ess)
Satire
7. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Resolution
Epithet
Feeling
Realism
8. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Metaphor
Maxim
Pastoral
Assonance
9. Exaggeration
Symbol
Irony
Expressive Purpose
Hyperbole
10. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
Parallelism
Theme
Informative Purpose
11. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Point of View
Metonymy
Conclusion
Epigram
12. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Parallelism
Topic
Denouement
Anastrophe
13. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Characterization
Organizing Principles
Parable
Blank Verse
14. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Tale
Exposition
Narrative Purpose
Analogy
15. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Elegy
Resolution
Confidant
Thesis
16. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Parable
Thesis
Topic
Argumentative purpose
17. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Style
Expressive Purpose
Poetic Syntax
Stream of Consciousness
18. Point of view
Perspective
Stereotype Character
Villain(ess)
Plot
19. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Diction
Persuasive Purpose
Literal Meaning
Allusion
20. 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
Simile
Stereotype Character
Parallelism
Theater
21. How a sentence was formed to convey an emotion - image - or aspect of language.
Elegy
Poetic Syntax
Apostrophe
Conclusion
22. Dictionary definition of a word
Figure of Speech
Narrative
Expository Purpose
Denotation
23. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Heroic Couplet
Antihero(ine)
Idiom
Rhyme
24. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Narrative
Syntax
Falling Action
Monologue
25. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Empathy
Climate
Persuasive Purpose
Voice
26. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Aphorism
Characterization
Legend
Setting
27. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Pun
Figure of Speech
Personification
Antihero(ine)
28. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Argumentative purpose
Epigram
Legend
Imagery
29. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Free Verse
Heroic Couplet
Rising Action
Antagonist
30. The main (good) character
Anachronism
Hero(ine)
Fable
Metonymy
31. Description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Irony
Tale
Informative Purpose
Imagery
32. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Complication
Narrative Purpose
Descriptive Purpose
Anecdote
33. The use of elevated language over ordinary language
Voice
Poetic Diction
Denotation
Myth
34. Presentation of the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Confidant
Stream of Consciousness
Atmosphere
Empathy
35. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Expository Purpose
Anachronism
Pathos
36. A final settlement
Theme
Parody
Cliche
Conclusion
37. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Stream of Consciousness
Farce
Paradox
Denotation
38. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
Analogy
Parody
Figurative Language
Pathos
39. A contradiction or dilemma
Sarcasm
Tone
Paradox
Stereotype Character
40. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Literal Meaning
Persona
Setting
Foreshadowing
41. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Mood
Style
Feeling
Syntax
42. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Narrative Purpose
Pun
Rising Action
Pathos
43. A long - lyrical poem - usually serious or meditative in nature with complete stanza forms
Literal Meaning
Ode
Simile
Connotation
44. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Interior Monologue
Irony
Denouement
Exciting Force
45. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Antagonist
Exciting Force
Implication
Denouement
46. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Point of View
Euphemism
Dialect
Surrealism
47. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Inference
Expository Purpose
Rhyme Scheme
Euphony
48. Recurring at regular intervals
Rhyme Scheme
Syntax
Rhythm
Climax
49. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Poetic Diction
Rhyme
Point of View
Free Verse
50. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Allegory
Implication
Theme
Tale