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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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
Dramatic Monologue
Ideology
Epic
Eclogues
2. 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
Epic Simile
Bidungsroman
Panegyric
heroic couple
3. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Personification
Charles Dickens
Foreshadow
Romantic Period
4. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
blank verse
Neo-Platonism
Epithalamium
Beowulf
5. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Theater of the absurd
Stanza
Sensation
Free verse
6. 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.
Antistrophe
Assonance
blank verse
Wilfred Owen
7. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Antistrophe
Abstraction
8. 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)
Simile
Wilfred Owen
Gothic novels
Tetralogy
9. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
Mystery plays
Anacoluthon
Rhyme scheme
10. 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.
Aestheticism
Hyperbole
Panegyric
Epic
11. Romantic period;
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Epic
William Wordsworth
12. 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
Simile
New Criticism
Epithalamium
Chiasmus
13. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Sensation
Imagery
Victorian Period
14. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Harangue
Epistolary Novels
Prosody
Epic
15. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Charles Dickens
heroic couple
Sensation
Victorian Period
16. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Simile
Fashionable novel
Tone
Aestheticism
17. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Wilfred Owen
Gothic novels
Prosody
Cycle
18. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Hyperbole
Meter
Bidungsroman
Prosody
19. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Verisimilitude
Neo-Platonism
Christopher Marlowe
Vignette
20. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Daniel Defoe
Harangue
Sensation
Soliloquy
21. 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
Victorian Period
Trace
Epithalamium
Hyperbole
22. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Imagery
Mystery plays
Jane Austen
Prosody
23. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
New Criticism
Abstraction
Wilfred Owen
Beowulf
24. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Elegy
Assonance
Free indirect discourse
Ode
25. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
blank verse
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hyperbole
Essay
26. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Anacoluthon
Syllepsis
Daniel Defoe
Tone
27. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Imagery
Trace
Chiasmus
Free indirect discourse
28. 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
Hyperbole
Panegyric
Bidungsroman
Free verse
29. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Epic Simile
Vignette
Enjambment
Verisimilitude
30. 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
Chiasmus
Epic
Picaresque
Hyperbole
31. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Neo-Platonism
William Shakespeare
Epic
32. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
William Shakespeare
Alliteration
Eclogues
Epistolary Novels
33. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Aporia
Christopher Marlowe
Meter
Panegyric
34. (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
Romantic Period
Verisimilitude
Abstraction
The Renaissance
35. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Augustan Period
Free indirect discourse
Anacoluthon
Enjambment
36. 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
Tone
William Wordsworth
Syllepsis
37. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Sensation
Victorian Period
Strophe
Epic
38. 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.
Panegyric
Rhyming Couplet
Tone
Epode
39. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Canon
Cycle
Aporia
Mystification
40. 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.)
Connotation
Mystery plays
terza rima
Anacoluthon
41. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Marginalization
Neo-Platonism
Soliloquy
terza rima
42. Romantic Period
Personification
heroic couple
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Villanelle
43. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Anadiplosis
Elegy
Antistrophe
Syllepsis
44. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Free verse
Chiasmus
Chivalry
Imagery
45. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Connotation
Metaphysical poetry
Free verse
Free indirect discourse
46. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Foreshadow
Strophe
Mystification
Rhyming Couplet
47. A poem of fixed form - French in origin - consisting usually of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza and having only two rhymes throughout
The Renaissance
Villanelle
Condition of England novel
Gothic novels
48. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Free verse
roman a clef
Mystery plays
Enjambment
49. 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
Stream-of-consciousness
Marginalization
Hyperbole
Charles Dickens
50. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Stream-of-consciousness
Anacoluthon
Chivalry
Assonance