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SAT Subject Test: Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Exaggeration
Sarcasm
Mood
Hyperbole
Exciting Force
2. Dramatic speech to oneself
Alliteration
Soliloquy
Parable
Stream of Consciousness
3. Told from the narrator's point of view - using 'I' - 'me' - 'we' - 'our' - etc.
Euphemism
Rhyme Scheme
First-person
Stereotype Character
4. A type of poem - telling a story - meant to be sung; both lyrical and narrative in nature
Ballad
Personification
Figure of Speech
Onomatopoeia
5. Identification with and understanding of another's situation - feelings - and motives
Interior Monologue
Symbol
Empathy
Anthropomorphism
6. Events after the climax - leading to the resolution
Feeling
Interior Monologue
Falling Action
Concrete Poetry
7. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Rhyme
Ode
Legend
Foreshadowing
8. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Style
Introduction
Figure of Speech
Sequence Patterns
9. An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
Climax
Idiom
Resolution
Heroic Couplet
10. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; poking fun at the foibles of society
Satire
Dialect
Flashback
Imagery
11. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Informative Purpose
Theme
Antithesis
Simile
12. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Thesis
Conflict
Anachronism
Metaphor
13. (absurd): plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life - usually to show that modern life is pointless
Atmosphere
Genre
Epithet
Theater
14. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Genre
Alliteration
Feeling
Parody
15. A message that digresses from the main subject
Assonance
Aside
Diction
Irony
16. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is less pleasant
Heroic Couplet
Euphemism
Exciting Force
Personification
17. Before the main part or actually story
Introduction
Rhetorical Question
Atmosphere
Free Verse
18. The speaker - voice - or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
Antihero(ine)
Antithesis
Persona
Conflict
19. Humorous imitation
Aphorism
Onomatopoeia
Parody
Analogy
20. Anything that stands for or represents something else
Sarcasm
Villain(ess)
Symbol
Comedy
21. Light and humorous drama with a happy ending
Concrete Poetry
Comedy
Stream of Consciousness
Villain(ess)
22. The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
Hero(ine)
Sprung rhythm
Resolution
Anthropomorphism
23. 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
Anastrophe
Euphemism
Iambic Pentameter
Dramatic Monologue
24. The final resolution or outcome of the main complication
Inference
Denouement
Epithet
Sonnet
25. The perspective from which a story is told
Atmosphere
Rhythm
Point of View
Epithet
26. A brief - cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
Soliloquy
Aphorism
Alliteration
Climax
27. Background introducing the characters - setting - and basic situation
Flashback
Exposition
Epithet
Imagery
28. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; often handed down orally
Legend
Point of View
Euphemism
Hero(ine)
29. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
Myth
Rising Action
Allegory
Complication
30. Word or phrase describing a person or thing; descriptive phrase characterizing a person (often contemptous)
Plot
Rhyme Scheme
Epithet
Villain(ess)
31. Point of view
Analogy
Allegory
Perspective
Dialect
32. Subject
Topic
Interior Monologue
Couplet
Soliloquy
33. A contradiction or dilemma
Rhythm
Paradox
Setting
Parable
34. When - where - and the weather in which the story takes place
Parallelism
Topic
Setting
Antagonist
35. Rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor
Atmosphere
Narrative
Style
Pastoral
36. Exposition tells or explains how to do something; includes ideas and facts about the focus subject
Heroic Couplet
Connotation
Confidant
Expository Purpose
37. The final actions or solution of the plot
Resolution
Couplet
Free Verse
Rising Action
38. A protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero(ine) or one who is somewhat villainous
Monologue
Stereotype Character
Exposition
Antihero(ine)
39. A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
Heroic Couplet
Falling Action
Personification
Exciting Force
40. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Falling Action
Aphorism
Blank Verse
Diction
41. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Sarcasm
Antagonist
Tone
Introduction
42. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.
Denotation
Personification
Narrative
Allegory
43. Address to an absent or imaginary person
Pathos
Sequence Patterns
Free Verse
Apostrophe
44. Suggestions or hints
Realism
Implication
Allusion
Legend
45. The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Parody
Iambic Pentameter
Consonance
Heroic Couplet
46. Poetic meter that has one stressed and a varying amount of unstressed syllables
Idiom
Descriptive Purpose
Sequence Patterns
Sprung rhythm
47. Figure of speech; comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Empathy
Free Verse
Simile
Voice
48. Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poem's subject
Sequence Patterns
Concrete Poetry
Flashback
Diction
49. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
Pastoral
Alliteration
Maxim
Tone
50. A person with powers greater than that of a normal being
Superhero(ine)
Rhythm
Concrete Poetry
Context