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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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
Picaresque
Dramatic Irony
Iambic pentameter
Sublime
2. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Free indirect discourse
John Milton
Samuel Johnson
Antistrophe
3. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Allegory
Simile
Soliloquy
Satire
4. Letters - usually formal
Ideology
Neo-Platonism
Epistles
Sublime
5. 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
Gothic novels
Foreshadow
Free indirect discourse
Epithalamium
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.
Irony
Trace
Alliteration
Epode
7. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
heroic couple
Tone
Satire
Cycle
8. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Christopher Marlowe
Vignette
Hyperbole
9. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Tetralogy
Beowulf
Simile
Eclogues
10. 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
Dramatic Irony
Vignette
Aestheticism
Verisimilitude
11. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Rhyme scheme
Daniel Defoe
Neo-Platonism
First Folio
12. 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
Strophe
Harangue
Beowulf
Bidungsroman
13. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
Epistolary novel
Dramatic Monologue
Aestheticism
14. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Neo-Platonism
Panegyric
Epistolary Novels
Charles Dickens
15. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Epic
Strophe
Trace
Wilfred Owen
16. 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
Dramatic Monologue
Gothic novels
Dramatic Irony
17. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
blank verse
Trace
Sublime
Alexander Pope
18. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Tone
Epithalamium
Foreshadow
19. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epic
Canon
Mystification
Epistolary Novels
20. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rhyme scheme
Personification
Prosody
21. A group of four works
Mystification
Vignette
Tetralogy
Gothic novels
22. 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
Eclogues
roman a clef
Mystery plays
23. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Anadiplosis
Epode
Marginalization
Fashionable novel
24. Augustan Period
Free indirect discourse
Samuel Johnson
Ode
New Criticism
25. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Prosody
Mystery plays
Canon
William Shakespeare
26. 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.
Chivalry
Augustan Period
Romantic Period
Aporia
27. 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
Bidungsroman
Medieval Period
Trace
Tetralogy
28. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Alliteration
Tone
heroic couple
Ode
29. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Epic Simile
Chivalry
roman a clef
John Milton
30. 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
Epic Simile
Metaphysical poetry
Samuel Johnson
31. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Harangue
Dramatic Irony
Serialized Novels
Simile
32. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Allegory
The Renaissance
Ideology
Epistolary novel
33. 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
Epic
Fashionable novel
Abstraction
Irony
34. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
The Renaissance
Allegory
Alliteration
35. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Augustan Period
Alexander Pope
Epistolary Novels
Assonance
36. To put or publish. Published novel
Serialized Novels
Epode
Free indirect discourse
roman a clef
37. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
heroic couple
William Shakespeare
Neo-Platonism
Canon
38. 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'
Abstraction
Irony
Epistles
Satire
39. (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
The Renaissance
Metaphysical poetry
Verisimilitude
First Folio
40. 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
John Milton
Wilfred Owen
Samuel Johnson
41. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Strophe
Medieval Period
Gothic novels
Neo-Platonism
42. 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
First Folio
Serialized Novels
Soliloquy
43. 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
Ideology
Augustan Period
Hyperbole
Trace
44. 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
Chivalry
heroic couple
Medieval Period
Epic
45. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Aubade
Alexander Pope
Romantic Period
Verisimilitude
46. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epic Simile
Soliloquy
Epithalamium
Irony
47. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Chiasmus
Metaphysical poetry
Augustan Period
Epode
48. Romantic Period
Assonance
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epic
Epistles
49. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Eclogues
Fashionable novel
Medieval Period
roman a clef
50. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
heroic couple
Elegy
Abstraction
Epode