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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Farce
Voice
Superhero(ine)
Feeling
2. Dramatic speech to oneself
Soliloquy
Onomatopoeia
Flashback
Mood
3. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Simile
Poetic Diction
Stream of Consciousness
Rhyme
4. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Idiom
Conflict
Falling Action
Sequence Patterns
5. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Free Verse
Symbol
Blank Verse
Epithet
6. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Genre
Plot
Parody
Sprung rhythm
7. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Metaphor
Iambic Pentameter
Villain(ess)
Free Verse
8. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Connotation
Soliloquy
Fable
Anecdote
9. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Symbol
Comedy
Climate
Atmosphere
10. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Soliloquy
Denotation
Surrealism
Hero(ine)
11. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Romance
Farce
Alliteration
Stanza
12. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Iambic Pentameter
Euphemism
Cliche
Conclusion
13. Inversion of the natural or usual word order
Resolution
Connotation
Tone
Anastrophe
14. A mournful poem - especially lamenting the dead
Genre
Elegy
Style
Voice
15. The prevailing psychological state
Persuasive Purpose
Villain(ess)
Oxymoron
Climate
16. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Genre
Rising Action
Villain(ess)
Rhyme
17. A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
Theme
Context
Antihero(ine)
18. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Argumentative purpose
Informative Purpose
Satire
Ballad
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
Iambic Pentameter
Characterization
Literal Meaning
Parable
20. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Implication
Context
Resolution
Narrative
21. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Folktale
Allusion
Ballad
Couplet
22. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Expressive Purpose
Rhyme Scheme
Couplet
Romance
23. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Exposition
Stanza
Climate
Dramatic Monologue
24. Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally - often creating comparisons
Literal Meaning
Comedy
Figurative Language
Allusion
25. Emotional appeal
Pathos
Soliloquy
Foreshadowing
Climate
26. Series of events
Informative Purpose
Simile
Sarcasm
Plot
27. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Thesis
Idiom
Blank Verse
Epithet
28. Point of view
Perspective
Point of View
Flashback
Context
29. Narrator tells a story; events unfold through time
Satire
Narrative Purpose
Climax
Antithesis
30. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Personification
Foreshadowing
Rhythm
Romance
31. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Tone
Villain(ess)
Argumentative purpose
Allusion
32. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Stereotype Character
Couplet
Interior Monologue
Anachronism
33. A word imitating the sound it represents
Climax
Exciting Force
Onomatopoeia
Denotation
34. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Antagonist
Pathos
Consonance
Poetic Diction
35. Subject
Narrative
Genre
Topic
Sequence Patterns
36. Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head
Aside
Interior Monologue
Maxim
Theater
37. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Context
Implication
Romance
Pastoral
38. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Concrete Poetry
Synecdoche
Aside
Conclusion
39. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Diction
Informative Purpose
Characterization
Apostrophe
40. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Characterization
Feeling
Allegory
Sarcasm
41. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Theme
Elegy
Climax
Simile
42. 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
Characterization
Synecdoche
Sprung rhythm
Sonnet
43. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Theater
Euphemism
Exposition
Genre
44. Words mean exactly what they say
Concrete Poetry
Literal Meaning
Antihero(ine)
Tone
45. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Idiom
Simile
Superhero(ine)
Flashback
46. Suggestions or hints
Implication
Allusion
Elegy
Satire
47. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Setting
Theater
Allegory
Free Verse
48. 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
Stereotype Character
Diction
Hero(ine)
Topic
49. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Blank Verse
Plot
Diction
Maxim
50. The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning
Context
Informative Purpose
Villain(ess)
Diction