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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Aestheticism
John Milton
Metaphysical poetry
Enjambment
2. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
William Wordsworth
Wilfred Owen
Personification
William Shakespeare
3. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Chivalry
Verisimilitude
Aestheticism
Stanza
4. 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 Irony
Rhyming Couplet
William Wordsworth
Dramatic Monologue
5. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Sensation
Soliloquy
Free indirect discourse
Epode
6. 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'
Essay
Anadiplosis
Serialized Novels
Tone
7. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Antistrophe
Iambic pentameter
Stream-of-consciousness
blank verse
8. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Stream-of-consciousness
Fashionable novel
Metaphor
9. 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
Eclogues
Soliloquy
Bidungsroman
The Renaissance
10. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
roman a clef
Free verse
Neo-Platonism
11. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Alexander Pope
Metaphysical poetry
Enjambment
The Renaissance
12. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Abstraction
Strophe
Assonance
Beowulf
13. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Aubade
Mystification
Aestheticism
roman a clef
14. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Chiasmus
William Wordsworth
Gothic novels
Eclogues
15. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
First Folio
Romantic Period
Ideology
Jane Austen
16. 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.)
terza rima
Abstraction
Condition of England novel
Aestheticism
17. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Christopher Marlowe
Neo-Platonism
Metaphor
Charles Dickens
18. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Mystery plays
Augustan Period
Gothic novels
William Shakespeare
19. Letters - usually formal
Tetralogy
Essay
Epistles
Ideology
20. Augustan Period
Mystification
Epistolary novel
Aestheticism
Samuel Johnson
21. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Panegyric
Abstraction
Free verse
Cycle
22. 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)
Neo-Platonism
Alliteration
Dramatic Monologue
Simile
23. Romantic period;
Anacoluthon
William Wordsworth
Free indirect discourse
First Folio
24. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Rhyme scheme
Fashionable novel
Free verse
Romantic Period
25. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Rhyming Couplet
Prosody
Tetralogy
Metaphor
26. 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
Aubade
Theater of the absurd
Elegy
Rhyming Couplet
27. A sentence that changes its grammatical structure in the middle - often suggest disturbance or excitement. For example: 'we had almost reached the finished line and then the race had to have been fixed from the beginning'
blank verse
Jane Austen
Anacoluthon
Ode
28. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Epithalamium
Essay
Foreshadow
Iambic pentameter
29. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Marginalization
Aporia
Elegy
Epistles
30. 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'
Samuel Johnson
William Wordsworth
Personification
Irony
31. 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.
Epic
Personification
Gothic novels
Sublime
32. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Mystery plays
Allegory
Satire
Epithalamium
33. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Aestheticism
Free indirect discourse
Anadiplosis
Antistrophe
34. 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
Metaphor
First Folio
Jane Austen
Hyperbole
35. 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.
Strophe
Abstraction
Dramatic Monologue
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
36. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Stream-of-consciousness
Epistolary Novels
Charles Dickens
Mystification
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.
Antistrophe
Chivalry
Mystification
Samuel Johnson
38. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
Neo-Platonism
Vignette
Free indirect discourse
39. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Cycle
Theater of the absurd
Anadiplosis
Alliteration
40. 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
Soliloquy
Metaphysical poetry
Villanelle
heroic couple
41. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Sublime
Essay
John Milton
Stanza
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
Augustan Period
Mystery plays
William Shakespeare
43. 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
Epode
Harangue
Anadiplosis
44. 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
Essay
Wilfred Owen
Simile
Ideology
45. 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
Enjambment
New Criticism
Elegy
Meter
46. Romantic Period
Syllepsis
roman a clef
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Allegory
47. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Connotation
Daniel Defoe
Wilfred Owen
Stanza
48. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Soliloquy
Theater of the absurd
William Shakespeare
Antistrophe
49. To put or publish. Published novel
Epic
Serialized Novels
Imagery
Samuel Johnson
50. 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
Villanelle
Beowulf
Epistolary Novels
Epithalamium