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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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1. A form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Stereotype Character
Couplet
Dialect
First-person
2. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Synecdoche
Poetic Diction
Metaphor
Flashback
3. 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
Feeling
Introduction
Interior Monologue
4. Someone to whom private matters are confided
Superhero(ine)
Organizing Principles
Genre
Confidant
5. Serves by contrast to call attention to another's good qualities
Climax
Allegory
Symbol
Foil
6. To display emotions and ideas
Organizing Principles
Epithet
Expressive Purpose
Third-person
7. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Foreshadowing
Figure of Speech
Fable
Anthropomorphism
8. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Allusion
Figurative Language
Point of View
Mood
9. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Poetic Diction
Theater
Villain(ess)
Satire
10. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Syntax
Couplet
Interior Monologue
Synecdoche
11. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Perspective
Foreshadowing
Complication
12. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Monologue
Plot
Persona
Conflict
13. A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Thesis
Persuasive Purpose
Exposition
Dramatic Monologue
14. The primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Aphorism
Perspective
Rising Action
Thesis
15. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or - incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens
Flashback
Epithet
Irony
Comedy
16. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Exciting Force
Connotation
Simile
Comedy
17. Drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Monologue
Tragedy
Imagery
Irony
18. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Heroic Couplet
Antagonist
Fable
Pun
19. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Apostrophe
Couplet
Superhero(ine)
Imagery
20. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Ballad
Analogy
Blank Verse
Tale
21. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Simile
Dialect
Falling Action
Ballad
22. 1. Categorical Design 2. Chronologically: time order 3. Spatially: geographically 4. Cause & Effect
Organizing Principles
Alliteration
Plot
Villain(ess)
23. The process by which the writer develops a character
Pun
Theme
Informative Purpose
Characterization
24. Suggestions or hints
Context
Irony
Antihero(ine)
Implication
25. An idea that is implied or suggested
Pastoral
Connotation
Aside
Descriptive Purpose
26. Point of view
Perspective
Sequence Patterns
Point of View
Soliloquy
27. A play on words
Theater
Pun
Figurative Language
Aside
28. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Literal Meaning
Falling Action
Ballad
Folktale
29. A short - witty saying expressing a single thought or observation
Pastoral
Epigram
Anthropomorphism
Voice
30. 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
Superhero(ine)
Onomatopoeia
Parody
Iambic Pentameter
31. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Superhero(ine)
Complication
Style
Anachronism
32. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Figure of Speech
Oxymoron
Antagonist
Alliteration
33. Dictionary definition of a word
Rhyme Scheme
Denotation
Metaphor
Expressive Purpose
34. An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict.
Complication
Third-person
Expository Purpose
Literal Meaning
35. Humorous imitation
Parody
Complication
Pastoral
Organizing Principles
36. The freedom of a poet in writing
Poetic License
Elegy
Folktale
Romance
37. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Maxim
Metonymy
Style
Legend
38. Word choice
Euphony
Consonance
Diction
Expressive Purpose
39. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Maxim
Rhythm
Rhyme
Interior Monologue
40. Written to persuade audience of the truth (or falsehood) the speaker wishes to make understood
Personification
Argumentative purpose
Antihero(ine)
Antithesis
41. The prevailing psychological state
Ode
Theme
Climate
Expository Purpose
42. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Tone
Antithesis
Narrative Purpose
Sprung rhythm
43. A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Descriptive Purpose
Cliche
Rhyme Scheme
Soliloquy
44. The perspective from which a story is told
Dialect
Literal Meaning
Paradox
Point of View
45. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Parable
Apostrophe
Narrative
Expository Purpose
46. A character or force in conflict with the main character
Empathy
Villain(ess)
Analogy
Antagonist
47. Short (narrative) account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Parable
Characterization
Realism
Anecdote
48. A word imitating the sound it represents
Euphemism
First-person
Onomatopoeia
Parable
49. Giving human characteristics to something that not human
Sprung rhythm
Pun
Analogy
Personification
50. Extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places; often dealing with love
Romance
Pastoral
Narrative Purpose
Persona