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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Anacoluthon
Ideology
Verisimilitude
Foreshadow
2. 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.
Elegy
Satire
Epode
Soliloquy
3. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Vignette
Personification
Abstraction
Prosody
4. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Free verse
Epistolary Novels
Elegy
Essay
5. 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.
Aporia
Verisimilitude
Metaphor
First Folio
6. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Medieval Period
Assonance
Iambic pentameter
Mystery plays
7. 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
Wilfred Owen
Sensation
Abstraction
8. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Meter
Serialized Novels
Wilfred Owen
William Shakespeare
9. 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
William Wordsworth
Alliteration
Rhyme scheme
Rhyming Couplet
10. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
John Milton
Augustan Period
Meter
Trace
11. (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
Syllepsis
Condition of England novel
Chivalry
12. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
Antistrophe
Chivalry
First Folio
13. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Epic
Strophe
Essay
Meter
14. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Connotation
Anadiplosis
Charles Dickens
Verisimilitude
15. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Irony
Assonance
Epistolary novel
Imagery
16. 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
Medieval Period
Aporia
Epic
17. 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
Mystery plays
Trace
heroic couple
Soliloquy
18. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Mystery plays
Epic
Alexander Pope
19. Augustan Period
Samuel Johnson
Chivalry
Connotation
Trace
20. 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
Eclogues
Metaphysical poetry
Ideology
Alexander Pope
21. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Neo-Platonism
Metaphysical poetry
Free verse
Epistolary novel
22. 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.
Aubade
Wilfred Owen
Fashionable novel
First Folio
23. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Romantic Period
Assonance
Aporia
24. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Epic
Neo-Platonism
Imagery
Assonance
25. To put or publish. Published novel
Antistrophe
Wilfred Owen
Vignette
Serialized Novels
26. 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'
Anadiplosis
Condition of England novel
Aporia
Metaphysical poetry
27. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Rhyming Couplet
Chiasmus
Foreshadow
Mystery plays
28. 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
Meter
Epic
John Milton
Allegory
29. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Ideology
Trace
Strophe
Enjambment
30. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Daniel Defoe
Tone
Sublime
Wilfred Owen
31. 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
The Renaissance
terza rima
Condition of England novel
32. 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.
Antistrophe
Epic
Chivalry
Rhyme scheme
33. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
blank verse
Strophe
Tetralogy
Abstraction
34. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
William Shakespeare
Strophe
Jane Austen
Rhyme scheme
35. 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
Alexander Pope
Hyperbole
Simile
Daniel Defoe
36. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
Verisimilitude
Assonance
Connotation
37. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
heroic couple
Canon
Mystery plays
Victorian Period
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.
Sublime
Antistrophe
Chiasmus
terza rima
39. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Epic Simile
Allegory
Imagery
Jane Austen
40. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
William Shakespeare
Verisimilitude
roman a clef
Augustan Period
41. 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'
Allegory
Meter
Irony
Foreshadow
42. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Tetralogy
Allegory
Panegyric
Imagery
43. 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
Medieval Period
Rhyming Couplet
New Criticism
Gothic novels
44. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Wilfred Owen
Villanelle
Antistrophe
Epithalamium
45. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Metaphysical poetry
Samuel Johnson
Aporia
Bidungsroman
46. 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
Epistles
Vignette
Medieval Period
Bidungsroman
47. 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
Epic
Epic Simile
Ideology
48. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Iambic pentameter
Wilfred Owen
Allegory
Panegyric
49. Romantic Period
Epistolary novel
Bidungsroman
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
heroic couple
50. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Epistolary novel
Samuel Johnson
Essay
Serialized Novels