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CLEP English Literature All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Samuel Johnson
Verisimilitude
blank verse
Serialized Novels
2. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Connotation
blank verse
Theater of the absurd
Dramatic Monologue
3. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Chivalry
New Criticism
Rhyming Couplet
roman a clef
4. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Metaphor
Romantic Period
Meter
Antistrophe
5. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Imagery
Alexander Pope
Villanelle
Elegy
6. 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.
Simile
Stream-of-consciousness
Sublime
Cycle
7. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Metaphysical poetry
Metaphor
Marginalization
Stanza
8. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Satire
Jane Austen
Condition of England novel
John Milton
9. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
blank verse
Charles Dickens
First Folio
Trace
10. 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
Iambic pentameter
Imagery
Picaresque
Alexander Pope
11. 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
Tone
Bidungsroman
Hyperbole
12. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Romantic Period
Prosody
Chiasmus
13. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Epic
Vignette
Epic Simile
William Shakespeare
14. To put or publish. Published novel
roman a clef
Serialized Novels
Epic
Augustan Period
15. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Hyperbole
Assonance
Eclogues
Chiasmus
16. 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.
blank verse
Dramatic Irony
Gothic novels
Cycle
17. (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
Mystery plays
The Renaissance
Syllepsis
Anacoluthon
18. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
heroic couple
Elegy
Mystification
Christopher Marlowe
19. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Epithalamium
Alliteration
Syllepsis
Metaphysical poetry
20. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Serialized Novels
Romantic Period
Villanelle
21. 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.
Dramatic Monologue
roman a clef
Free verse
Ode
22. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Picaresque
Epic Simile
Stream-of-consciousness
John Milton
23. 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.
Dramatic Monologue
heroic couple
Epic Simile
Mystery plays
24. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Chivalry
Verisimilitude
John Milton
Condition of England novel
25. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Allegory
Sublime
Metaphysical poetry
Ode
26. 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
heroic couple
Condition of England novel
Connotation
Serialized Novels
27. 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.
Connotation
Daniel Defoe
Strophe
blank verse
28. Letters - usually formal
Epistles
Alliteration
Samuel Johnson
Assonance
29. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Samuel Johnson
Meter
Essay
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Epistles
Prosody
Mystery plays
terza rima
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'
Anadiplosis
Beowulf
Mystery plays
Antistrophe
32. Romantic Period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epistles
Christopher Marlowe
Tetralogy
33. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Augustan Period
Enjambment
Alliteration
heroic couple
34. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Imagery
Chivalry
Stream-of-consciousness
35. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
The Renaissance
Free verse
Medieval Period
Trace
36. 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)
blank verse
Simile
Rhyming Couplet
Jane Austen
37. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
Aestheticism
Trace
Soliloquy
38. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
blank verse
Alexander Pope
Stream-of-consciousness
Assonance
39. 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
Mystification
Stream-of-consciousness
Anadiplosis
Rhyme scheme
40. 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.
Stream-of-consciousness
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Milton
Epode
41. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Condition of England novel
Epistles
Anacoluthon
Aestheticism
42. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Theater of the absurd
Cycle
Serialized Novels
William Shakespeare
43. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Sublime
Mystery plays
Chivalry
roman a clef
44. 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
Jane Austen
Dramatic Irony
Marginalization
Stream-of-consciousness
45. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Imagery
Samuel Johnson
Abstraction
Metaphor
46. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Daniel Defoe
Sensation
Epistles
New Criticism
47. Augustan Period
Harangue
Samuel Johnson
Bidungsroman
Personification
48. 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
Connotation
Serialized Novels
Beowulf
Epic Simile
49. 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.
Connotation
Free indirect discourse
Chivalry
Vignette
50. 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.
Essay
Antistrophe
Panegyric
Aestheticism