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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Free indirect discourse
Trace
John Milton
Sublime
2. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Rhyming Couplet
Theater of the absurd
John Milton
Daniel Defoe
3. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Harangue
Fashionable novel
Iambic pentameter
Marginalization
4. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Personification
Eclogues
Victorian Period
Aestheticism
5. (1670-1790) identified literature as a worthy cultural pursuit capable of reconciling respect for classical learning with the evolving interests and tastes of the educated middle class. Translated - imitated - and elucidated the most respectable anci
Picaresque
Epic Simile
Augustan Period
Neo-Platonism
6. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Fashionable novel
Abstraction
Victorian Period
Picaresque
7. A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another - dissimilar thing by the use of like - as - etc. (Ex.: a heart as big as a whale - her tears flowed like wine)
Samuel Johnson
Simile
Tone
The Renaissance
8. A group of four works
Tetralogy
Wilfred Owen
Fashionable novel
Irony
9. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Aporia
Satire
Fashionable novel
10. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Epithalamium
Foreshadow
Sensation
Augustan Period
11. A method of humorous or subtly sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their usual sense: the irony of calling a stupid plan 'clever'
Jane Austen
Irony
Aubade
Cycle
12. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Aporia
Chiasmus
Imagery
Stanza
13. An important critical movement that took hold in the early decades of the twentieth century. It stresses the importance of paying close attention to the literary text as a way to develop critical intelligence
Dramatic Irony
Wilfred Owen
New Criticism
First Folio
14. Augustan Period;
Antistrophe
Aubade
Simile
Alexander Pope
15. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Satire
Theater of the absurd
Canon
Strophe
16. (1540-1640) public theaters presented plays that celebrated a semifluid social order governed by absolute power. These dramas portrayed any unchecked social mobility that might threaten state stability as the result of personal evil - corruption - an
Jane Austen
roman a clef
Free indirect discourse
The Renaissance
17. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Abstraction
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Epistolary novel
18. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Panegyric
Picaresque
Stanza
Rhyming Couplet
19. Designating or characteristic of a kind of fiction that originated in Spain and deals episodically with the adventures of a hero who is or resembles such a vagabond or rogue
Epic Simile
Serialized Novels
Picaresque
terza rima
20. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Jane Austen
Trace
Beowulf
Tone
21. One of three sections of the Greek dramatic chorus and the Pindaric ode - along with the strophe and antistrophe. These forms may be repeated in sequence within a single ode.
First Folio
Epode
Meter
Irony
22. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Abstraction
Gothic novels
Daniel Defoe
Wilfred Owen
23. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Medieval Period
New Criticism
Mystification
Ode
24. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Elegy
Epic Simile
Jane Austen
Augustan Period
25. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Iambic pentameter
First Folio
Satire
William Shakespeare
26. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Tetralogy
Medieval Period
Elegy
Daniel Defoe
27. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Mystery plays
Free verse
First Folio
Meter
28. A lyric from stemming from the Middle Ages that treats the subject of two lovers waking up together. It may deal with the joy of being together or with the sorrow of having to part.
Abstraction
Aubade
Mystery plays
Strophe
29. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Samuel Johnson
Charles Dickens
Gothic novels
Prosody
30. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Charles Dickens
Serialized Novels
Medieval Period
31. Early Medieval Period; The protagonist of the poem. Beowulf is a Geatish hero who fights the monster Grendel - Grendel's mother - and a fire-breathing dragon. Beowulf's exploits prove him to be the strongest - ablest warrior of his time. In his youth
heroic couple
Anacoluthon
Beowulf
Iambic pentameter
32. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
First Folio
William Wordsworth
Stanza
Enjambment
33. Repetition at the start of a sentence of the concluding word or phrase in the previous sentence. For example: 'There's only so much exercise you can get on a plane. A air plane is not the greatest place to work out'
Samuel Johnson
Anadiplosis
Charles Dickens
Syllepsis
34. A sentence that changes its grammatical structure in the middle - often suggest disturbance or excitement. For example: 'we had almost reached the finished line and then the race had to have been fixed from the beginning'
Anacoluthon
heroic couple
Victorian Period
Epode
35. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Bidungsroman
Chivalry
Condition of England novel
Epic Simile
36. Is the idealized code of medieval nobility. It stressed honesty and integrity in living up to one's social obligations - courtesy to others - and deference to ladies.
Chivalry
Tetralogy
Epistles
blank verse
37. The most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat (see blank verse). These lines in iambic pentameter are from The Merchant of Venice - by William Shakespeare:In sooth -/I know/not
Tone
Antistrophe
Iambic pentameter
Medieval Period
38. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Mystery plays
Eclogues
Hyperbole
Canon
39. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Marginalization
Chivalry
New Criticism
Christopher Marlowe
40. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Free verse
Free indirect discourse
Condition of England novel
Syllepsis
41. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Medieval Period
Assonance
Epic
42. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Condition of England novel
Beowulf
Epithalamium
Enjambment
43. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Theater of the absurd
William Shakespeare
Romantic Period
Verisimilitude
44. A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common Ex: Her home was a prison.
Metaphor
Alliteration
Daniel Defoe
Gothic novels
45. A verse form of Italian origin - made up of tercets - the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba - bcb - cdc - etc.)
terza rima
Gothic novels
Anacoluthon
Samuel Johnson
46. Romantic period;
Irony
William Wordsworth
William Shakespeare
Chiasmus
47. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
roman a clef
Rhyme scheme
Sensation
Marginalization
48. An important narrative form that emerges at the threshold between orality and literacy. They are written down at some point after a period of oral development. Beowulf is considered an epic.
Epic
Tone
Allegory
Ode
49. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Iambic pentameter
Connotation
Canon
Mystery plays
50. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Christopher Marlowe
Allegory
William Wordsworth
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