Extent of terminology on SAT Literature

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<p>Quick, simple question as I will be taking SAT Lit soon..</p>

<p>To what extent is terminology tested on the test?</p>

<p>I've looked at lolcats4's thread, and apparently there is very little to no terminology. However, I looked through the Kaplan book, and these were some example questions:</p>

<p>The poem can be categorized as:</p>

<p>(A) A sonnet
(B) A pastoral
(C) Heroic couplets
(D) Blank verse
(E) a villanelle</p>

<p>The poem appears to be:
(A) elegiac verse
(B) a Romantic ballad
(C) a fragment from an epic poem
(D) an ode to Ozymandias
(E) a Petrarchan sonnet</p>

<p>Lines 5 and 9 both feature</p>

<p>(A) Assonance
(B) Alliteration
(C) Paradox
(D) Antithesis
(E) Rhetorical questions</p>

<p>To me, these seem slightly term-intensive. My reading comprehension is pretty solid, but I slightly doubt my ability to correctly identify the category of the poem (I was unfamiliar with pastoral, villanelle, elegiac verse, and petrarchan sonnet).</p>

<p>I'm not sure if this is representative of the questions usually on the SAT lit test. If so, should I just read through the Kaplan review and memorize the vocab terms? Thanks for any help.</p>

<p>(Note): If it matters, I'm currently a sophmore, which may be why I have not encountered some of these terms before?</p>

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<p>If you just get the Barron’s book:
Then you will find -
It contains every literary term and definition, look-
That passes through your mind.</p>

<p>I picked it up not long ago,
Hoping to learn for the test,
Having found the above was true-
Now I can do my best.</p>

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<p>Excellent post! It made me laugh, for sure.</p>

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<p>Hm, from what I’ve heard Barron overpreps you alot though =[. I don’t really have that much time to go through and memorize literary terms.</p>

<p>From what lolcats said, Kaplan should be sufficient?</p>

<p>Mainly, what I want to know is whether literary terms are worth bothering about. If they are, I might just take this test next year…</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>if anyone who has taken it could put in their two cents it would be appreciated</p>

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<p>bump again =x</p>

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<p>bump. i’m curious about this too!</p>

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<p>There were a lot more lit terms on the test than I was expecting, but they were all very easy and covered by Kaplan. It had more than enough terms. Mostly just metaphor, alliteration, simile, etc.</p>