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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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.
Aestheticism
Cycle
Beowulf
Prosody
2. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Trace
The Renaissance
Panegyric
3. 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.
Free verse
Verisimilitude
Eclogues
Charles Dickens
4. Augustan Period
Metaphysical poetry
John Milton
New Criticism
Samuel Johnson
5. 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
Epistolary Novels
Prosody
Beowulf
6. (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
Aubade
Villanelle
Augustan Period
Daniel Defoe
7. To put or publish. Published novel
Sensation
Fashionable novel
Chiasmus
Serialized Novels
8. 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.
John Milton
Sublime
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alexander Pope
9. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Assonance
Metaphysical poetry
Picaresque
Enjambment
10. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Epic
Tetralogy
Serialized Novels
Marginalization
11. 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'
Irony
Metaphysical poetry
Eclogues
Villanelle
12. Designating or characteristic of a kind of fiction that originated in Spain and deals episodically with the adventures of a hero who is or resembles such a vagabond or rogue
Picaresque
Essay
Syllepsis
Canon
13. Romantic Period
Meter
Imagery
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Harangue
14. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Metaphor
blank verse
Eclogues
Epode
15. Augustan Period;
Chivalry
Aubade
Iambic pentameter
Alexander Pope
16. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Prosody
Serialized Novels
Picaresque
Medieval Period
17. 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
Epic
Sublime
Chiasmus
Allegory
18. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
First Folio
Satire
Stanza
The Renaissance
19. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Dramatic Monologue
Tetralogy
Connotation
Eclogues
20. 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.
Ideology
Strophe
Eclogues
Imagery
21. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Metaphor
The Renaissance
Iambic pentameter
Stanza
22. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
First Folio
Ideology
Stream-of-consciousness
roman a clef
23. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
Bidungsroman
Foreshadow
Trace
24. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Anacoluthon
Romantic Period
Neo-Platonism
Irony
25. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Samuel Johnson
Imagery
Marginalization
Irony
26. 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.
Epic
Irony
Christopher Marlowe
Rhyming Couplet
27. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Abstraction
Alexander Pope
Imagery
28. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Epistolary novel
Meter
Sublime
Mystery plays
29. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Aestheticism
Gothic novels
Harangue
Epithalamium
30. A group of four works
Tetralogy
William Shakespeare
Daniel Defoe
Beowulf
31. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Canon
Anacoluthon
Anadiplosis
32. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Epistolary novel
Hyperbole
Vignette
Canon
33. 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
The Renaissance
Ode
Cycle
34. 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
Connotation
New Criticism
Enjambment
Canon
35. 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
Anacoluthon
Hyperbole
Eclogues
Iambic pentameter
36. 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.
Chivalry
Simile
roman a clef
William Wordsworth
37. 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
Aestheticism
Villanelle
Dramatic Monologue
38. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Victorian Period
Syllepsis
Jane Austen
39. 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
Victorian Period
Assonance
Tetralogy
Rhyming Couplet
40. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Harangue
Stream-of-consciousness
Alexander Pope
Free indirect discourse
41. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Personification
Elegy
Eclogues
Abstraction
42. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Theater of the absurd
Panegyric
Hyperbole
Bidungsroman
43. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Gothic novels
Imagery
Fashionable novel
Epithalamium
44. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Canon
The Renaissance
Alexander Pope
Condition of England novel
45. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Irony
William Shakespeare
Mystery plays
Eclogues
46. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Iambic pentameter
Marginalization
Vignette
Connotation
47. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Condition of England novel
Christopher Marlowe
blank verse
Dramatic Irony
48. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
blank verse
Aestheticism
Elegy
Wilfred Owen
49. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Satire
Aporia
Picaresque
Simile
50. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Theater of the absurd
The Renaissance
Tone
heroic couple