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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Romantic period;
Chiasmus
New Criticism
Bidungsroman
William Wordsworth
2. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Enjambment
Aestheticism
Free indirect discourse
Victorian Period
3. Augustan Period
Wilfred Owen
Samuel Johnson
Abstraction
Villanelle
4. 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
Stream-of-consciousness
New Criticism
Dramatic Monologue
Epic
5. 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.)
Chiasmus
terza rima
Victorian Period
Tetralogy
6. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sensation
Sublime
7. 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.
Stanza
Strophe
Foreshadow
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
8. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Epistolary novel
Romantic Period
William Wordsworth
Meter
9. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Sublime
Assonance
Jane Austen
Mystification
10. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Serialized Novels
Rhyming Couplet
Sensation
Tone
11. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Metaphor
roman a clef
Mystery plays
Wilfred Owen
12. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Epistles
Eclogues
Medieval Period
Connotation
13. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Strophe
Harangue
Christopher Marlowe
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
14. Is a figure of speech that uses an exaggerated or extravagant statement to create a strong emotional response. As a figure of speech it is not intended to be taken literally. Hyperbole is frequently used for humour. Examples of hyperbole are: They ra
Hyperbole
Victorian Period
Medieval Period
Strophe
15. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Alliteration
Cycle
Soliloquy
Anacoluthon
16. 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.
Alexander Pope
Epic
Metaphor
roman a clef
17. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Chiasmus
Essay
Soliloquy
Irony
18. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Alexander Pope
Metaphor
William Shakespeare
terza rima
19. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Essay
Panegyric
Tetralogy
Foreshadow
20. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Verisimilitude
Free verse
Dramatic Monologue
Alexander Pope
21. (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
Augustan Period
Assonance
Dramatic Monologue
Christopher Marlowe
22. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Medieval Period
Aubade
Daniel Defoe
Simile
23. A characteristic of art or nature that inspires a feeling of grander and mystery. For example: an ancient ruins - a storm swept landscape - of the fall of Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost.
Theater of the absurd
Bidungsroman
Sensation
Sublime
24. 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
Strophe
Rhyming Couplet
William Shakespeare
blank verse
25. 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
Canon
Elegy
heroic couple
Panegyric
26. A novel that traces the development of a young person from childhood or adolescence to maturity. It is often written in the form of an autobiography
Bidungsroman
Condition of England novel
Ode
Dramatic Monologue
27. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Foreshadow
Rhyming Couplet
heroic couple
Epistolary novel
28. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Epistles
Epic
Samuel Johnson
Marginalization
29. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Vignette
Aestheticism
Cycle
Metaphysical poetry
30. 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.
Neo-Platonism
Personification
Dramatic Monologue
William Shakespeare
31. 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'
Syllepsis
blank verse
Iambic pentameter
Anadiplosis
32. 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'
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Panegyric
Mystery plays
Irony
33. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Soliloquy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Shakespeare
34. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Metaphor
Imagery
Neo-Platonism
Jane Austen
35. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Metaphor
Fashionable novel
Chiasmus
Christopher Marlowe
36. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Strophe
Sensation
Gothic novels
Essay
37. 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
Vignette
Connotation
Ode
Stream-of-consciousness
38. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Samuel Johnson
First Folio
Satire
Iambic pentameter
39. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Tetralogy
Imagery
Vignette
Marginalization
40. A group of four works
Alexander Pope
Tetralogy
Irony
Mystification
41. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Aporia
Satire
Epic Simile
Beowulf
42. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Epode
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Romantic Period
Mystery plays
43. 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
Connotation
Irony
Daniel Defoe
Epic
44. Made up of the ideas - beliefs - and values shared by members of a society. Ideology is shaped by political interests and serves power interests in ways we might not recognize
Ideology
Antistrophe
terza rima
Epistolary novel
45. 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
Daniel Defoe
Chivalry
Beowulf
Gothic novels
46. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Jane Austen
John Milton
Hyperbole
Daniel Defoe
47. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
John Milton
Panegyric
Prosody
Marginalization
48. 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.
Anacoluthon
Condition of England novel
Vignette
Aubade
49. Letters - usually formal
Charles Dickens
Epic Simile
Epistles
Chivalry
50. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Epistolary Novels
Mystification
Epithalamium
Tetralogy