Practice Test: English SAT II

Matching skip

Short Answer skip

1. paean
   
2. indirect dialogue
   
3. narrative
   
4. parable
   
5. style
   

Multiple Choice skip

1. diction
   1. repetition of sounds, meanings, or structures to create a cerrtain style
   2. reference to something or someone, usually literary
   3. phrase that appears to be contradictory but that actually contains some basic truth that resolves the apparent contradiction
   4. language characterized by fugures of speech such as metaphors and similes as well as elaborate expression through imagery
   5. choice of words.
2. fable
   1. an expression of joyful praise
   2. a story that has a moral, usually involving animals as the main characters
   3. something that evokes a feeling of pity or sympathy "pathetic"
   4. use of a repeated constant sound
   5. phrase that appears to be contradictory but that actually contains some basic truth that resolves the apparent contradiction
3. meter
   1. phrase that appears to be contradictory but that actually contains some basic truth that resolves the apparent contradiction
   2. the rhythm of a poem.
   3. a story that has a moral
   4. ridicule of a subject
   5. choice of words.
4. elegy
   1. choice of words.
   2. literary representation of an event or a story. the text itself
   3. language characterized by fugures of speech such as metaphors and similes as well as elaborate expression through imagery
   4. mournful or melancholy poem or song, usually to pay tribute to a dead person
5. onomatopoeia
   1. language that communicates what was expressed in the dialoge, without using direct quotation
   2. person or object in an inappropriate historical situation
   3. word intended to simulate the actual sound of the thing or action it describes
   4. the rhythm of a poem.
   5. phrase that appears to be contradictory but that actually contains some basic truth that resolves the apparent contradiction

True or False skip

1. anecdote
   a short narrative, story, or tale

   True   False

2. anachronism
   a short narrative, story, or tale

   True   False

3. figurative language
   language characterized by fugures of speech such as metaphors and similes as well as elaborate expression through imagery

   True   False

4. paradox
   person or object in an inappropriate historical situation

   True   False

5. pathos
   the rhythm of a poem.

   True   False