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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
Sprung rhythm
Expository Purpose
First-person
Crisis
2. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Ballad
Denotation
Satire
Rhythm
3. Presentation of the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
Sarcasm
Stream of Consciousness
Sequence Patterns
Symbol
4. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer; can be limited or omniscient
Realism
Climate
Third-person
First-person
5. Suggestions or hints
Villain(ess)
Implication
Iambic Pentameter
Idiom
6. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Assonance
Sarcasm
7. Word choice
Descriptive Purpose
Diction
Alliteration
Anecdote
8. 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
Ode
Theater
Sonnet
Stereotype Character
9. Words mean exactly what they say
Third-person
Complication
Argumentative purpose
Literal Meaning
10. To display emotions and ideas
Idiom
Syntax
Expressive Purpose
Maxim
11. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Informative Purpose
Irony
Fable
Satire
12. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Dramatic Monologue
Parallelism
Denotation
Concrete Poetry
13. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Poetic License
Foreshadowing
Perspective
Conclusion
14. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Rhetorical Question
Dramatic Monologue
Myth
Pun
15. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Falling Action
Iambic Pentameter
Concrete Poetry
16. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Persuasive Purpose
Anecdote
Perspective
Epigram
17. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Topic
Atmosphere
Narrative Purpose
Thesis
18. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Parallelism
Flashback
Blank Verse
Figurative Language
19. 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
Falling Action
Voice
Metonymy
Exposition
20. 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
Poetic License
Free Verse
Plot
Synecdoche
21. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Aside
Climax
Mood
22. The final actions or solution of the plot
Stanza
Tale
Resolution
Pathos
23. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Empathy
Surrealism
Folktale
Onomatopoeia
24. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Sarcasm
Genre
Aside
Sequence Patterns
25. The main (good) character
Confidant
Hero(ine)
Narrative Purpose
Inference
26. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Rhyme
Antihero(ine)
Sonnet
Poetic License
27. The perspective from which a story is told
Point of View
Informative Purpose
Topic
Mood
28. A contradiction or dilemma
Alliteration
Paradox
Figure of Speech
Understatement
29. A category or type of literary or artistic work
Antagonist
Rhetorical Question
Consonance
Genre
30. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Simile
Anthropomorphism
Parody
Falling Action
31. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Thesis
Rhythm
Antagonist
Epithet
32. The event that sets the plot into motion - triggering the conflict
Synecdoche
Point of View
Exciting Force
Satire
33. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Genre
Sarcasm
Irony
Literal Meaning
34. A question asked for an effect - not actually requiring an answer; emphasizing the obvious
Euphemism
Rhetorical Question
Figure of Speech
Free Verse
35. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Implication
Anachronism
Parody
Farce
36. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Satire
Connotation
Consonance
Exciting Force
37. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control
Euphemism
Surrealism
Denouement
Pastoral
38. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Antithesis
Rhyme
Climax
Empathy
39. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Anthropomorphism
Sequence Patterns
Poetic Diction
Theater
40. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Free Verse
Poetic Syntax
Genre
Rhyme Scheme
41. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Implication
Parody
Sequence Patterns
Rhyme Scheme
42. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Argumentative purpose
Empathy
Anachronism
Aside
43. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Setting
Descriptive Purpose
Cliche
Plot
44. Before the main part or actually story
Genre
Alliteration
Introduction
Cliche
45. Written to convince the reader of an opinion or point
Feeling
Implication
Persuasive Purpose
Antagonist
46. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Free Verse
Comedy
Style
Inference
47. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Persuasive Purpose
Romance
Connotation
Climax
48. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Iambic Pentameter
Stanza
Apostrophe
Narrative Purpose
49. Unstable or critical situation - usually turning point - in which the outcome will make a decisive difference
Style
Crisis
Rhythm
Introduction
50. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Allegory
Descriptive Purpose
Expository Purpose
Foil