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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Aporia
Ideology
Personification
Assonance
2. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystery plays
Personification
Neo-Platonism
Mystification
3. 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
Rhyming Couplet
Eclogues
Epistolary Novels
Hyperbole
4. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Foreshadow
Syllepsis
Epistolary Novels
Prosody
5. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Epode
Marginalization
Romantic Period
Connotation
6. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Mystification
Victorian Period
Strophe
terza rima
7. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Medieval Period
Fashionable novel
Epistles
Epic
8. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
blank verse
Canon
Irony
Marginalization
9. (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
Augustan Period
Condition of England novel
Tone
Beowulf
10. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Allegory
Sublime
Tone
Sensation
11. 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
Free indirect discourse
Dramatic Irony
Meter
Medieval Period
12. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Rhyme scheme
Sublime
William Shakespeare
Verisimilitude
13. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
Epic Simile
Prosody
New Criticism
14. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Sensation
Strophe
Satire
Condition of England novel
15. 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
Epic
Medieval Period
heroic couple
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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Personification
Cycle
Epistolary novel
17. 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.)
Marginalization
Romantic Period
terza rima
Sublime
18. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
Irony
Metaphor
Abstraction
19. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Jane Austen
Satire
Condition of England novel
Mystification
20. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
blank verse
Connotation
Imagery
Epic
21. 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
Sensation
Picaresque
Assonance
Mystification
22. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Sensation
Metaphor
Wilfred Owen
Trace
23. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Tone
roman a clef
Villanelle
Epistolary novel
24. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
New Criticism
roman a clef
Picaresque
Epistolary Novels
25. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Sensation
Soliloquy
Stanza
Epic
26. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Trace
Aubade
Chiasmus
Fashionable novel
27. 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
Connotation
heroic couple
Epode
Ode
28. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Epistles
roman a clef
Imagery
Jane Austen
29. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Epic Simile
Aestheticism
Personification
Foreshadow
30. 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.
Epic
Metaphor
Epode
Free indirect discourse
31. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Meter
Assonance
Stanza
Sensation
32. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Allegory
Hyperbole
Ode
Simile
33. 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
Satire
Villanelle
Tone
Wilfred Owen
34. 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.
Medieval Period
Epic
Chivalry
Sublime
35. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
Aporia
New Criticism
William Shakespeare
36. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Villanelle
Syllepsis
Aestheticism
Stanza
37. 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.
Rhyme scheme
Chivalry
Ideology
Irony
38. 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
Rhyme scheme
Augustan Period
blank verse
Gothic novels
39. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Assonance
New Criticism
Vignette
William Shakespeare
40. 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
Victorian Period
Simile
Ideology
Epistles
41. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Charles Dickens
Panegyric
Sensation
Free indirect discourse
42. To put or publish. Published novel
Personification
Serialized Novels
Villanelle
Enjambment
43. 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.
Epistles
Aubade
Essay
Imagery
44. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Assonance
Enjambment
Marginalization
William Wordsworth
45. Romantic period;
Dramatic Irony
Epic
William Wordsworth
Stream-of-consciousness
46. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Vignette
Iambic pentameter
Charles Dickens
Panegyric
47. 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.
Sublime
Strophe
Anadiplosis
Chiasmus
48. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Trace
John Milton
Rhyme scheme
Prosody
49. 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.
Picaresque
Tone
Antistrophe
Epic Simile
50. (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
Epistolary novel
Metaphysical poetry
The Renaissance
Iambic pentameter