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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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)
Elegy
Charles Dickens
Cycle
Simile
2. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Medieval Period
Essay
Sublime
blank verse
3. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
roman a clef
Jane Austen
Gothic novels
Strophe
4. 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.
Stream-of-consciousness
Antistrophe
First Folio
Stanza
5. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
roman a clef
Iambic pentameter
First Folio
Free verse
6. 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.
Epistolary novel
terza rima
Trace
Epode
7. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Epode
Epithalamium
Essay
Fashionable novel
8. 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.
Sublime
Elegy
Epic
Anacoluthon
9. Romantic Period
Assonance
Serialized Novels
New Criticism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
10. 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
Epic
Medieval Period
Elegy
11. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Free indirect discourse
roman a clef
Daniel Defoe
Canon
12. 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.
Assonance
Dramatic Irony
Metaphor
Chivalry
13. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Sublime
Assonance
Irony
Rhyming Couplet
14. 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
Daniel Defoe
Serialized Novels
Samuel Johnson
Bidungsroman
15. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Aporia
Jane Austen
Beowulf
Neo-Platonism
16. 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
Elegy
Hyperbole
Sublime
Antistrophe
17. Romantic period;
New Criticism
William Wordsworth
Cycle
Serialized Novels
18. 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
Cycle
Eclogues
heroic couple
Charles Dickens
19. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Harangue
Rhyme scheme
Chivalry
Gothic novels
20. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Aubade
Sensation
Tone
Free verse
21. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Enjambment
heroic couple
Serialized Novels
22. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Soliloquy
Medieval Period
William Shakespeare
Eclogues
23. 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.
Romantic Period
Free verse
Tone
Medieval Period
24. Augustan Period
Serialized Novels
Samuel Johnson
terza rima
Elegy
25. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Aporia
Eclogues
Satire
26. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Picaresque
Mystery plays
Epic
Charles Dickens
27. A group of four works
Christopher Marlowe
blank verse
Personification
Tetralogy
28. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
Victorian Period
Harangue
First Folio
29. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Elegy
Rhyme scheme
Prosody
30. 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.
Harangue
Syllepsis
Aubade
William Wordsworth
31. 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.
Irony
Epic
Victorian Period
Metaphysical poetry
32. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
blank verse
Personification
Harangue
Irony
33. 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.
Metaphor
Eclogues
Stanza
Wilfred Owen
34. 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
Marginalization
Abstraction
Harangue
Beowulf
35. Augustan Period;
Imagery
Canon
terza rima
Alexander Pope
36. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Enjambment
Verisimilitude
Mystification
Condition of England novel
37. 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
Irony
Picaresque
Christopher Marlowe
Metaphor
38. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Epic
Trace
roman a clef
Anacoluthon
39. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epithalamium
Dramatic Monologue
heroic couple
Satire
40. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Aporia
Vignette
Wilfred Owen
Abstraction
41. 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'
Irony
Connotation
New Criticism
Victorian Period
42. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Epic Simile
Aporia
Epistles
Gothic novels
43. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
New Criticism
Alliteration
Epode
44. 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
New Criticism
Anadiplosis
Sensation
Samuel Johnson
45. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Free indirect discourse
heroic couple
Irony
roman a clef
46. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Sensation
Aubade
William Shakespeare
Allegory
47. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Picaresque
New Criticism
Augustan Period
Epic Simile
48. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Villanelle
Foreshadow
Mystery plays
Ode
49. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Epistolary novel
Meter
Irony
Metaphor
50. To put or publish. Published novel
Medieval Period
Serialized Novels
Foreshadow
Fashionable novel
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