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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Condition of England novel
Rhyme scheme
Epic Simile
Epistolary Novels
2. 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
Hyperbole
Dramatic Monologue
Marginalization
Essay
3. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Stanza
Beowulf
Stream-of-consciousness
Harangue
4. 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'
Connotation
Ode
Canon
Anadiplosis
5. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Elegy
Irony
Prosody
blank verse
6. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
John Milton
Ode
Rhyming Couplet
Allegory
7. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epithalamium
Wilfred Owen
Allegory
Fashionable novel
8. 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
Satire
Strophe
Samuel Johnson
Bidungsroman
9. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Gothic novels
Canon
Trace
The Renaissance
10. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Free indirect discourse
Epistolary novel
Canon
11. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Samuel Johnson
Free verse
First Folio
Mystification
12. (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
Trace
Augustan Period
Villanelle
Alliteration
13. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Condition of England novel
Syllepsis
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Theater of the absurd
14. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Neo-Platonism
Epode
Villanelle
Rhyming Couplet
15. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Panegyric
Chivalry
Meter
Aestheticism
16. 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.
Trace
Stanza
heroic couple
Sublime
17. 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
William Wordsworth
Villanelle
Personification
18. 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
Ode
Soliloquy
William Shakespeare
Stream-of-consciousness
19. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
terza rima
Epic Simile
Metaphysical poetry
Imagery
20. 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
Wilfred Owen
Gothic novels
Personification
Aporia
21. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Irony
Connotation
Epic
Cycle
22. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
First Folio
terza rima
Medieval Period
Verisimilitude
23. 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.
Foreshadow
Aubade
New Criticism
Vignette
24. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Eclogues
Alexander Pope
Panegyric
Epithalamium
25. 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.
Christopher Marlowe
Metaphysical poetry
Cycle
Metaphor
26. 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
Aubade
Verisimilitude
Epode
Beowulf
27. 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.
Cycle
Imagery
Personification
Verisimilitude
28. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Charles Dickens
Epistolary Novels
Alliteration
Aporia
29. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Trace
Mystification
Satire
Wilfred Owen
30. 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
Free indirect discourse
Rhyming Couplet
Augustan Period
Victorian Period
31. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
First Folio
Imagery
Elegy
Bidungsroman
32. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Chiasmus
Canon
Epic
Panegyric
33. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
Aporia
Trace
Theater of the absurd
34. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Epic Simile
Connotation
Anadiplosis
Augustan Period
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.
Connotation
Strophe
Gothic novels
Metaphysical poetry
36. (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
Free verse
Simile
blank verse
The Renaissance
37. 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)
Victorian Period
Jane Austen
Simile
Epic
38. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Assonance
blank verse
Anacoluthon
Rhyming Couplet
39. 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
Tetralogy
Medieval Period
Dramatic Irony
John Milton
40. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Picaresque
Villanelle
Daniel Defoe
41. To put or publish. Published novel
New Criticism
Serialized Novels
Epic
Stream-of-consciousness
42. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Eclogues
Metaphor
Jane Austen
Samuel Johnson
43. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Epistolary Novels
Condition of England novel
Elegy
Personification
44. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Mystification
William Shakespeare
Hyperbole
Beowulf
45. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Sublime
William Shakespeare
Enjambment
Cycle
46. 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.
Medieval Period
Eclogues
Epic
Meter
47. 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.
Christopher Marlowe
Dramatic Monologue
Sublime
Aporia
48. 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.
Free indirect discourse
Ideology
Antistrophe
roman a clef
49. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Vignette
Imagery
Prosody
William Shakespeare
50. Augustan Period
Wilfred Owen
Samuel Johnson
Free indirect discourse
Harangue