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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Anadiplosis
Abstraction
Hyperbole
Beowulf
2. Romantic Period
Epithalamium
Satire
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mystery plays
3. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Alliteration
Allegory
Stanza
Rhyme scheme
4. 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.
Epithalamium
Victorian Period
Epode
Tetralogy
5. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
Assonance
Dramatic Irony
Essay
6. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Hyperbole
Enjambment
Harangue
Epistolary Novels
7. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Simile
Wilfred Owen
Epistolary novel
Imagery
8. A couplet is a pair of lines of verse. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme - not all do
Aestheticism
Rhyming Couplet
The Renaissance
Anadiplosis
9. 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
Epic Simile
Theater of the absurd
Alexander Pope
10. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Chiasmus
Iambic pentameter
Free verse
11. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
Connotation
Medieval Period
terza rima
12. 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.
Ideology
Epistles
Syllepsis
Aubade
13. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Dramatic Monologue
Victorian Period
Prosody
Stanza
14. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Simile
Cycle
Alexander Pope
Victorian Period
15. Romantic period;
Trace
William Wordsworth
Free verse
Enjambment
16. Poetry that has no fixed meter - although it has rhythmic lines and line breaks and is therefore presumably composed with rhythmic qualities in mind. It came into vogue during the modern period.
Chivalry
Allegory
Vignette
Free verse
17. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Personification
Elegy
Verisimilitude
Prosody
18. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Mystery plays
Verisimilitude
Picaresque
The Renaissance
19. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
heroic couple
Enjambment
Charles Dickens
Anadiplosis
20. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Assonance
Harangue
Enjambment
Sensation
21. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Charles Dickens
Christopher Marlowe
Rhyme scheme
Stream-of-consciousness
22. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Sensation
Trace
Marginalization
Bidungsroman
23. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
John Milton
Antistrophe
Syllepsis
Harangue
24. Augustan Period
Assonance
Anadiplosis
Samuel Johnson
Sensation
25. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Enjambment
Metaphysical poetry
Sensation
Ode
26. A collection of works on a common theme such as Charlemagne or the Trojan War. Cycles typically represent the work of several different authors brought together into a group. Cycles are often groups of romance narrative.
Cycle
Chivalry
Alexander Pope
Harangue
27. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Marginalization
Anacoluthon
Epistles
blank verse
28. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Daniel Defoe
Aporia
Verisimilitude
Elegy
29. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Augustan Period
Epistles
Stanza
Soliloquy
30. 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
Abstraction
Serialized Novels
Iambic pentameter
Anadiplosis
31. A rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines - first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit - esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: 'In every work regard the writer's end - Since none can compass more than th
Strophe
Picaresque
Beowulf
heroic couple
32. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Serialized Novels
Romantic Period
First Folio
Syllepsis
33. Augustan Period;
Simile
Alexander Pope
Alliteration
Serialized Novels
34. (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
Condition of England novel
Allegory
The Renaissance
Strophe
35. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Neo-Platonism
Picaresque
Vignette
Elegy
36. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Neo-Platonism
Prosody
Epistolary Novels
Villanelle
37. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Anacoluthon
Chiasmus
Fashionable novel
Simile
38. One of three sections of the Greek dramatic chorus and the Pindaric ode - along with the strophe and epode. These forms may be repeated in sequence within a single ode.
Augustan Period
Metaphor
Antistrophe
William Wordsworth
39. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Abstraction
Chiasmus
terza rima
Satire
40. Letters - usually formal
roman a clef
Epistles
Allegory
William Wordsworth
41. One of the three sections of the Greek dramatic chorus and the Pindaric ode - along with the antistrophe and epode. These forms may be repeated in sequence within a single ode.
Epic
Strophe
heroic couple
William Wordsworth
42. Novel a modernist form that puts a story together by tracing the thoughts and feelings of its characters rather than through the voice of a detached narrator
Tetralogy
Fashionable novel
Mystery plays
Stream-of-consciousness
43. (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
Trace
Augustan Period
Condition of England novel
Meter
44. Heroic poetry with an important subject of crucial national or cultural significance - together with a grand - lofty tone. Many epics tell the story of the founding of a nation or race by means of battle or journey
Epistolary Novels
Christopher Marlowe
Chivalry
Epic
45. 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'
Epode
Anadiplosis
Epic
Meter
46. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Gothic novels
roman a clef
Prosody
New Criticism
47. A literary - usually verse composition in which a speaker reveals his or her character - often in relation to a critical situation or event - in a monologue addressed to the reader or to a presumed listener.
Villanelle
Enjambment
Dramatic Monologue
Epode
48. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Neo-Platonism
Eclogues
Canon
First Folio
49. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Irony
Epistles
William Wordsworth
First Folio
50. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Christopher Marlowe
Epic Simile
Epic
Syllepsis
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