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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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
Bidungsroman
Allegory
Eclogues
Epic
2. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Free verse
Augustan Period
Trace
Alliteration
3. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Tetralogy
Vignette
Jane Austen
Sensation
4. 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.
Personification
Epic
Harangue
Augustan Period
5. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Stream-of-consciousness
Ideology
heroic couple
Satire
6. 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
Beowulf
Meter
Chivalry
Cycle
7. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Epic Simile
Harangue
Wilfred Owen
Allegory
8. 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.
terza rima
Essay
Chivalry
Harangue
9. 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)
Simile
Soliloquy
Connotation
Free verse
10. The contrast - as in a play - between what a character thinks the truth is - as revealed in a speech or action - and what an audience or reader knows the truth
Dramatic Irony
Beowulf
Sensation
Stream-of-consciousness
11. 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
Romantic Period
Rhyming Couplet
Daniel Defoe
Anadiplosis
12. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
Villanelle
Elegy
Stream-of-consciousness
13. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Victorian Period
Aubade
Canon
14. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Epic Simile
Medieval Period
Sensation
Aestheticism
15. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
First Folio
Anadiplosis
Cycle
Wilfred Owen
16. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Dramatic Irony
Wilfred Owen
Imagery
Abstraction
17. 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.
Antistrophe
Serialized Novels
Eclogues
Dramatic Monologue
18. To put or publish. Published novel
Serialized Novels
Metaphysical poetry
Ideology
Samuel Johnson
19. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Vignette
Simile
Epistles
Fashionable novel
20. Novels about gruesome doings and supernatural horrors - usually set far away and long ago. The form emerged during the eighteenth century but gained popularity and respectability in the nineteenth - as the imagination in literature came to be more hi
Iambic pentameter
Epistolary Novels
Gothic novels
Personification
21. 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.)
Beowulf
terza rima
Allegory
Marginalization
22. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
John Milton
roman a clef
Alliteration
23. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
Metaphysical poetry
Tone
Jane Austen
24. 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
Ode
Chivalry
Epic
25. 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
Stream-of-consciousness
Fashionable novel
Chivalry
New Criticism
26. A poem of fixed form - French in origin - consisting usually of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza and having only two rhymes throughout
Enjambment
Tone
Christopher Marlowe
Villanelle
27. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Enjambment
Theater of the absurd
Panegyric
Ode
28. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Aporia
Metaphysical poetry
Canon
Prosody
29. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Augustan Period
Allegory
Imagery
Beowulf
30. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Beowulf
Mystery plays
Medieval Period
Sensation
31. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Ode
Daniel Defoe
Wilfred Owen
Enjambment
32. 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
Epithalamium
Harangue
New Criticism
33. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Prosody
Cycle
Metaphor
Epistolary novel
34. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Canon
Condition of England novel
Enjambment
35. 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
Epic
New Criticism
John Milton
Mystery plays
36. (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
Epistolary novel
Augustan Period
Assonance
Verisimilitude
37. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Meter
Allegory
Prosody
38. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Christopher Marlowe
Free verse
Wilfred Owen
39. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Epistolary novel
Ideology
Personification
Epic
40. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tone
Free indirect discourse
Assonance
Wilfred Owen
41. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
roman a clef
Stream-of-consciousness
Free indirect discourse
Mystery plays
42. 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.
Epic
Metaphor
Essay
Rhyming Couplet
43. Augustan Period
Samuel Johnson
John Milton
Gothic novels
roman a clef
44. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Epode
Chiasmus
Rhyme scheme
Mystification
45. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Enjambment
Irony
Chiasmus
Epithalamium
46. (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
The Renaissance
Dramatic Monologue
William Shakespeare
Cycle
47. 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
Rhyming Couplet
Iambic pentameter
Assonance
48. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mystification
Anacoluthon
Rhyme scheme
49. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Free indirect discourse
Vignette
Personification
Meter
50. Romantic Period
Imagery
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Enjambment
Dramatic Monologue