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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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'
Beowulf
Ode
Anacoluthon
Alexander Pope
2. 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
Hyperbole
Allegory
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dramatic Irony
3. 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
Medieval Period
Hyperbole
Daniel Defoe
Foreshadow
4. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Enjambment
Charles Dickens
Free indirect discourse
Panegyric
5. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
William Shakespeare
Prosody
Hyperbole
Anacoluthon
6. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Satire
Antistrophe
Epistolary novel
William Shakespeare
7. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Rhyme scheme
Metaphor
Charles Dickens
Christopher Marlowe
8. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Imagery
Dramatic Irony
Allegory
Daniel Defoe
9. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Wilfred Owen
William Wordsworth
Ideology
blank verse
10. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
Iambic pentameter
Tone
Assonance
11. 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.
Epode
roman a clef
Eclogues
Connotation
12. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Bidungsroman
Epistolary Novels
Metaphor
Epistolary novel
13. 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'
Metaphor
The Renaissance
Anadiplosis
Eclogues
14. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Meter
Gothic novels
roman a clef
Canon
15. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Dramatic Irony
Elegy
Medieval Period
Allegory
16. Romantic period;
Ode
roman a clef
William Wordsworth
Epistles
17. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Dramatic Monologue
Panegyric
Daniel Defoe
Trace
18. 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.
Epistolary Novels
The Renaissance
Rhyming Couplet
Sublime
19. Augustan Period
Tone
Epic Simile
Samuel Johnson
Connotation
20. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Aporia
Anadiplosis
Romantic Period
Ode
21. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Free indirect discourse
Wilfred Owen
Daniel Defoe
Prosody
22. 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.)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Simile
terza rima
Alexander Pope
23. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
heroic couple
Harangue
Metaphor
24. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Alliteration
Serialized Novels
Epistolary novel
Free indirect discourse
25. 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
Charles Dickens
Marginalization
Stream-of-consciousness
Chiasmus
26. 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
terza rima
blank verse
Gothic novels
Samuel Johnson
27. 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
Personification
Ideology
Romantic Period
28. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Epic
Alliteration
Imagery
William Wordsworth
29. Romantic Period
heroic couple
Serialized Novels
Picaresque
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Rhyming Couplet
Panegyric
Condition of England novel
Elegy
31. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Epode
Free indirect discourse
Antistrophe
Vignette
32. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Serialized Novels
Marginalization
William Shakespeare
Abstraction
33. 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
William Wordsworth
blank verse
Soliloquy
34. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
William Wordsworth
Daniel Defoe
Tetralogy
Rhyme scheme
35. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Rhyme scheme
Mystery plays
Epithalamium
Marginalization
36. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Meter
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Connotation
Wilfred Owen
37. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Elegy
Alexander Pope
Condition of England novel
Jane Austen
38. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Anadiplosis
Connotation
Charles Dickens
Verisimilitude
39. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Syllepsis
Anacoluthon
Chiasmus
Aestheticism
40. 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.
Free verse
Strophe
Soliloquy
Epic Simile
41. 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.
Daniel Defoe
Aubade
Trace
Chiasmus
42. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Free verse
Mystification
Rhyming Couplet
Ideology
43. 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
Imagery
Essay
roman a clef
Bidungsroman
44. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Rhyme scheme
Mystification
Abstraction
Simile
45. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Abstraction
Assonance
Harangue
Theater of the absurd
46. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Mystification
Soliloquy
Cycle
47. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Epithalamium
Tetralogy
Victorian Period
John Milton
48. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Ode
First Folio
Strophe
Panegyric
49. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
The Renaissance
Chiasmus
Eclogues
Tone
50. 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
Mystification
Fashionable novel
Strophe
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