SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP English Literature All In One
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
literature
,
english
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
New Criticism
Chiasmus
Panegyric
Connotation
2. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Picaresque
Neo-Platonism
Charles Dickens
Augustan Period
3. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Harangue
Tone
Sensation
Connotation
4. 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
Neo-Platonism
Iambic pentameter
Prosody
5. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Metaphor
Prosody
Mystification
Tetralogy
6. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Meter
Free indirect discourse
Epistolary novel
Alexander Pope
7. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Romantic Period
Aubade
roman a clef
Strophe
8. 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
Foreshadow
Picaresque
Jane Austen
Satire
9. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Trace
Ideology
Epode
Victorian Period
10. 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
Aestheticism
Augustan Period
Rhyming Couplet
Verisimilitude
11. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Dramatic Monologue
Aubade
Picaresque
12. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
William Wordsworth
Prosody
Mystification
Anacoluthon
13. A group of four works
Strophe
Ideology
Tetralogy
Mystification
14. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Elegy
Prosody
Canon
Theater of the absurd
15. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Chivalry
Sublime
Fashionable novel
Antistrophe
16. 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)
Aubade
Jane Austen
Simile
Aestheticism
17. Letters - usually formal
Syllepsis
Free indirect discourse
Charles Dickens
Epistles
18. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
Assonance
Ideology
Aestheticism
19. 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.
Samuel Johnson
Epic Simile
Epic
terza rima
20. 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'
William Wordsworth
Irony
Enjambment
Marginalization
21. Augustan Period
Epic
Satire
Epistolary novel
Samuel Johnson
22. 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
Villanelle
Ideology
Canon
Free verse
23. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Stanza
Hyperbole
Eclogues
Neo-Platonism
24. 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
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Essay
Meter
Beowulf
25. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Epithalamium
Cycle
Christopher Marlowe
Daniel Defoe
26. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Free verse
Assonance
Harangue
Metaphor
27. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Metaphor
First Folio
Antistrophe
Epode
28. A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common Ex: Her home was a prison.
Metaphysical poetry
Metaphor
Satire
Aestheticism
29. 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
Medieval Period
Gothic novels
Chivalry
Romantic Period
30. 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'
Chivalry
Epic
Harangue
Anadiplosis
31. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Free indirect discourse
Vignette
Chivalry
Alexander Pope
32. 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.)
Simile
Abstraction
terza rima
Romantic Period
33. 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.
Epic
Mystery plays
Free verse
Chivalry
34. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Mystification
Satire
Imagery
Strophe
35. 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.
Charles Dickens
Panegyric
Cycle
Alexander Pope
36. 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.
William Wordsworth
Stanza
roman a clef
Dramatic Monologue
37. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Victorian Period
Aporia
Personification
Soliloquy
38. 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
Canon
Anacoluthon
Hyperbole
New Criticism
39. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Alexander Pope
Wilfred Owen
Epic
Anacoluthon
40. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Abstraction
Rhyme scheme
Tetralogy
Sublime
41. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
heroic couple
Aporia
Dramatic Irony
Panegyric
42. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Epithalamium
Trace
roman a clef
Essay
43. (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
Verisimilitude
Jane Austen
The Renaissance
Stanza
44. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Strophe
Harangue
Hyperbole
Metaphysical poetry
45. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
William Wordsworth
Mystery plays
Satire
Condition of England novel
46. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Epithalamium
Verisimilitude
Samuel Johnson
Meter
47. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Elegy
Free verse
Personification
Vignette
48. 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
Rhyme scheme
Serialized Novels
Epode
49. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Alexander Pope
William Wordsworth
Sensation
Allegory
50. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Enjambment
Vignette
Free indirect discourse
Charles Dickens
Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?
Let me suggest you:
Browse all subjects
Browse all tests
Most popular tests
Major Subjects
Tests & Exams
AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT
Certifications
CISSP go to https://www.isc2.org/
PMP
ITIL
RHCE
MCTS
More...
IT Skills
Android Programming
Data Modeling
Objective C Programming
Basic Python Programming
Adobe Illustrator
More...
Business Skills
Advertising Techniques
Business Accounting Basics
Business Strategy
Human Resource Management
Marketing Basics
More...
Soft Skills
Body Language
People Skills
Public Speaking
Persuasion
Job Hunting And Resumes
More...
Vocabulary
GRE Vocab
SAT Vocab
TOEFL Essential Vocab
Basic English Words For All
Global Words You Should Know
Business English
More...
Languages
AP German Vocab
AP Latin Vocab
SAT Subject Test: French
Italian Survival
Norwegian Survival
More...
Engineering
Audio Engineering
Computer Science Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Structural Engineering
More...
Health Sciences
Basic Nursing Skills
Health Science Language Fundamentals
Veterinary Technology Medical Language
Cardiology
Clinical Surgery
More...
English
Grammar Fundamentals
Literary And Rhetorical Vocab
Elements Of Style Vocab
Introduction To English Major
Complete Advanced Sentences
Literature
Homonyms
More...
Math
Algebra Formulas
Basic Arithmetic: Measurements
Metric Conversions
Geometric Properties
Important Math Facts
Number Sense Vocab
Business Math
More...
Other Major Subjects
Science
Economics
History
Law
Performing-arts
Cooking
Logic & Reasoning
Trivia
Browse all subjects
Browse all tests
Most popular tests