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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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.
Romantic Period
Antistrophe
Villanelle
heroic couple
2. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
roman a clef
Mystification
Epic
Epistolary novel
3. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Prosody
Ode
Chiasmus
Connotation
4. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Epic
Jane Austen
Epistolary Novels
Aestheticism
5. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Epode
Vignette
Aporia
Canon
6. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Ideology
Trace
Imagery
Connotation
7. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epithalamium
Aporia
Epic
Strophe
8. 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.
Sensation
Soliloquy
Elegy
Metaphor
9. 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.
Trace
Strophe
Epistolary novel
Dramatic Monologue
10. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Ideology
Epic Simile
Alliteration
Wilfred Owen
11. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystification
Daniel Defoe
Stanza
Trace
12. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Epic Simile
Epic
Ideology
Vignette
13. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Allegory
Simile
Metaphor
Jane Austen
14. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Assonance
Epode
Condition of England novel
Simile
15. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Panegyric
Canon
Epic
Sensation
16. A group of four works
Prosody
blank verse
Tetralogy
Epithalamium
17. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Christopher Marlowe
Canon
Theater of the absurd
First Folio
18. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Satire
Epistles
Alliteration
Connotation
19. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
First Folio
Connotation
Vignette
Ideology
20. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Fashionable novel
Free indirect discourse
Syllepsis
Mystery plays
21. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Epistolary Novels
Meter
The Renaissance
Rhyming Couplet
22. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
roman a clef
Prosody
blank verse
Vignette
23. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Bidungsroman
Fashionable novel
Personification
24. 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
Allegory
Stanza
Eclogues
heroic couple
25. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Beowulf
Metaphysical poetry
Marginalization
Villanelle
26. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Picaresque
Allegory
Augustan Period
Epic
27. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Rhyme scheme
Eclogues
New Criticism
Epithalamium
28. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Essay
Epistolary Novels
Enjambment
29. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Sensation
First Folio
Epithalamium
Epic Simile
30. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tone
Iambic pentameter
Ode
Fashionable novel
31. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Satire
Augustan Period
Enjambment
blank verse
32. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Sensation
Abstraction
Ode
Enjambment
33. Letters - usually formal
Villanelle
Simile
Epistles
Panegyric
34. 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.
Serialized Novels
Epic
Neo-Platonism
Harangue
35. 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.
Trace
Theater of the absurd
Eclogues
Epode
36. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Bidungsroman
Alliteration
Ideology
37. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Satire
Villanelle
Dramatic Irony
Enjambment
38. 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
Beowulf
Iambic pentameter
Alliteration
39. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Verisimilitude
Meter
William Wordsworth
Aporia
40. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
terza rima
The Renaissance
Epistolary novel
41. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Romantic Period
Epistolary novel
Dramatic Irony
Christopher Marlowe
42. (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
Alexander Pope
Jane Austen
Augustan Period
Samuel Johnson
43. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Alliteration
Anacoluthon
Neo-Platonism
Soliloquy
44. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Eclogues
New Criticism
Foreshadow
Epode
45. 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.
Chiasmus
First Folio
Aubade
Dramatic Monologue
46. Romantic period;
Epistolary novel
First Folio
William Wordsworth
Tetralogy
47. 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
Gothic novels
Condition of England novel
Serialized Novels
Bidungsroman
48. 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
Rhyming Couplet
Ideology
Fashionable novel
Epistolary Novels
49. 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
Marginalization
Epode
Bidungsroman
Epistolary novel
50. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Epistles
Strophe
Victorian Period
Free verse