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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The freedom of a poet in writing
Consonance
Stanza
Poetic License
Rhetorical Question
2. Dramatic speech to oneself
Aphorism
Theme
Soliloquy
Superhero(ine)
3. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Oxymoron
Hero(ine)
Topic
Theater
4. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Exposition
Farce
Dialect
Crisis
5. The main (good) character
Pathos
Antagonist
Complication
Hero(ine)
6. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Rhyme
Sonnet
Resolution
Romance
7. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions
Hyperbole
Inference
Interior Monologue
Alliteration
8. Attitude or mood towards a subject
Third-person
Tone
Elegy
Parallelism
9. A contradiction or dilemma
Onomatopoeia
Analogy
Paradox
Idiom
10. The different patterns of development or methods of organization that can be used for self-expression - providing information - persuasion - and entertainment
Romance
Narrative
Anthropomorphism
Sequence Patterns
11. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Empathy
Romance
Rhyme Scheme
Farce
12. The final actions or solution of the plot
Exciting Force
Ode
Resolution
Epigram
13. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Narrative
Dramatic Monologue
Epigram
Euphemism
14. Recurring at regular intervals
Feeling
Rhythm
Parody
Couplet
15. The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms
Villain(ess)
Crisis
Parallelism
Rhetorical Question
16. A worn-out idea or overused expression
Cliche
Euphony
Expressive Purpose
Dialect
17. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Context
Empathy
Hero(ine)
Style
18. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Oxymoron
Anachronism
Theme
Theater
19. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Epigram
Maxim
Iambic Pentameter
Expository Purpose
20. Figure of speech; comparison not using like or as
Metaphor
Free Verse
Simile
Assonance
21. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Epigram
Pathos
Complication
Argumentative purpose
22. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Figure of Speech
Thesis
Personification
Style
23. A word imitating the sound it represents
Pathos
Introduction
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
24. An idea that is implied or suggested
Consonance
Farce
Connotation
Rhyme
25. The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
Voice
Empathy
Point of View
Narrative
26. A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition
Imagery
Folktale
Stanza
Characterization
27. Series of events
Interior Monologue
Rhythm
Plot
Stream of Consciousness
28. Exaggeration
Feeling
Concrete Poetry
Hyperbole
Legend
29. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Farce
Free Verse
Antithesis
Rhetorical Question
30. Conjoining contradictory terms
Comedy
Flashback
Oxymoron
Conflict
31. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Sprung rhythm
Complication
Couplet
Narrative
32. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Context
Cliche
Hyperbole
Foil
33. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Third-person
Consonance
Implication
Epithet
34. The perspective from which a story is told
Point of View
Theme
Couplet
Symbol
35. Humorous imitation
Plot
Euphony
Parody
Hero(ine)
36. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Anthropomorphism
Parody
Voice
Synecdoche
37. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Iambic Pentameter
Antihero(ine)
Myth
Legend
38. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Anachronism
Irony
Tone
Hero(ine)
39. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Euphony
Blank Verse
Foil
Expressive Purpose
40. 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
Metonymy
Imagery
Blank Verse
Surrealism
41. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Aside
Feeling
Allegory
Superhero(ine)
42. To display emotions and ideas
Organizing Principles
Satire
Paradox
Expressive Purpose
43. An evil or wicked person; antagonist
Villain(ess)
Exciting Force
Sonnet
Dialect
44. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Literal Meaning
Understatement
Organizing Principles
Idiom
45. A reference to a well-known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Setting
Allusion
Feeling
Aside
46. To inform the reader about something using facts - ideas and containing a focus subject
Informative Purpose
Stream of Consciousness
Soliloquy
Synecdoche
47. 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
Argumentative purpose
Iambic Pentameter
Topic
Context
48. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Soliloquy
Hero(ine)
Climate
Rhyme
49. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Apostrophe
Parody
Argumentative purpose
Tale
50. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Complication
Characterization
Superhero(ine)
Flashback