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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Mystery plays
Chivalry
Bidungsroman
Dramatic Irony
2. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Simile
Verisimilitude
Free indirect discourse
Gothic novels
3. 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
Victorian Period
William Wordsworth
Gothic novels
4. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Romantic Period
Eclogues
New Criticism
Villanelle
5. 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
Soliloquy
Hyperbole
Harangue
Mystification
6. 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
Picaresque
Tone
John Milton
Harangue
7. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Beowulf
William Wordsworth
Assonance
Christopher Marlowe
8. 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
Imagery
Ideology
Canon
Villanelle
9. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Panegyric
Epithalamium
Canon
Epic
10. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Picaresque
Jane Austen
Neo-Platonism
Stream-of-consciousness
11. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Cycle
Elegy
Tone
Rhyming Couplet
12. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Serialized Novels
Aporia
Allegory
Antistrophe
13. Letters - usually formal
Epistles
Soliloquy
Romantic Period
Simile
14. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Aporia
Alliteration
Anadiplosis
Christopher Marlowe
15. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Harangue
Epic
Fashionable novel
Alliteration
16. 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
Simile
Hyperbole
Villanelle
Gothic novels
17. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
William Shakespeare
Mystification
William Wordsworth
Fashionable novel
18. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Metaphysical poetry
Alliteration
Aestheticism
Panegyric
19. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Rhyme scheme
The Renaissance
Epic Simile
Essay
20. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Mystification
Eclogues
Romantic Period
William Shakespeare
21. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Verisimilitude
Wilfred Owen
Abstraction
Assonance
22. 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.
Epistles
Epode
Connotation
Daniel Defoe
23. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Cycle
Neo-Platonism
Epistolary Novels
Aporia
24. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Verisimilitude
Canon
25. A group of four works
Dramatic Irony
Bidungsroman
Essay
Tetralogy
26. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Stanza
Charles Dickens
Aubade
27. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Alliteration
Theater of the absurd
Trace
Dramatic Monologue
28. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Canon
Condition of England novel
Free indirect discourse
Strophe
29. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Alexander Pope
Assonance
Marginalization
Ode
30. Heroic poetry with an important subject of crucial national or cultural significance - together with a grand - lofty tone. Many epics tell the story of the founding of a nation or race by means of battle or journey
Abstraction
Personification
Epic
Vignette
31. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Daniel Defoe
William Wordsworth
Mystification
32. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Stream-of-consciousness
Charles Dickens
Vignette
Anadiplosis
33. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Epode
Aporia
Panegyric
34. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Dramatic Irony
First Folio
Strophe
Tone
35. 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)
Samuel Johnson
Wilfred Owen
Picaresque
Simile
36. 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.
Anacoluthon
Irony
Medieval Period
Aubade
37. The most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat (see blank verse). These lines in iambic pentameter are from The Merchant of Venice - by William Shakespeare:In sooth -/I know/not
Iambic pentameter
Personification
Tone
Assonance
38. 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.
Wilfred Owen
Augustan Period
Serialized Novels
Cycle
39. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Metaphor
Fashionable novel
Epistolary novel
Metaphysical poetry
40. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Bidungsroman
Charles Dickens
Fashionable novel
Sublime
41. 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.
Simile
Charles Dickens
Chivalry
Enjambment
42. 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.
Mystery plays
Epode
Charles Dickens
Sublime
43. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Marginalization
Serialized Novels
Panegyric
44. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Sensation
William Wordsworth
Personification
Free indirect discourse
45. Augustan Period;
Anadiplosis
John Milton
Alexander Pope
Harangue
46. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Strophe
Eclogues
Rhyming Couplet
47. 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
First Folio
Prosody
Soliloquy
Beowulf
48. 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.
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
Metaphor
Foreshadow
49. 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'
Epic Simile
Anadiplosis
Assonance
Personification
50. 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
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Stream-of-consciousness
Harangue
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