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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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.
Vignette
Metaphysical poetry
Tone
Metaphor
2. Romantic period;
First Folio
Meter
William Wordsworth
Dramatic Monologue
3. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Syllepsis
John Milton
Chivalry
blank verse
4. 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
Dramatic Irony
Hyperbole
Tone
Soliloquy
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
Antistrophe
Prosody
Epic Simile
6. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Aporia
Stream-of-consciousness
Alliteration
Hyperbole
7. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Victorian Period
Canon
Syllepsis
Serialized Novels
8. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Serialized Novels
Samuel Johnson
Syllepsis
Wilfred Owen
9. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Iambic pentameter
Dramatic Monologue
Charles Dickens
New Criticism
10. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Wilfred Owen
Epode
Marginalization
Imagery
11. 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
Chivalry
Neo-Platonism
Enjambment
Rhyming Couplet
12. Letters - usually formal
Epistles
Tone
Romantic Period
Assonance
13. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Bidungsroman
Panegyric
Vignette
Anadiplosis
14. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Stream-of-consciousness
Romantic Period
Eclogues
New Criticism
15. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Hyperbole
Simile
Fashionable novel
roman a clef
16. 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
Assonance
Beowulf
Irony
Romantic Period
17. 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.)
Tetralogy
Fashionable novel
terza rima
Enjambment
18. 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
Metaphysical poetry
Augustan Period
Imagery
Bidungsroman
19. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Bidungsroman
Epistles
Vignette
Free indirect discourse
20. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
Meter
terza rima
Alliteration
21. (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
Imagery
Mystification
Epic Simile
The Renaissance
22. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
terza rima
Mystery plays
Christopher Marlowe
Imagery
23. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Wilfred Owen
Iambic pentameter
Allegory
Free indirect discourse
24. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Dramatic Irony
Satire
Dramatic Monologue
Wilfred Owen
25. 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
heroic couple
Jane Austen
Epic Simile
Sensation
26. 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'
heroic couple
Picaresque
Irony
Vignette
27. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Harangue
Dramatic Irony
Epistolary Novels
Enjambment
28. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Eclogues
William Shakespeare
Chivalry
Alliteration
29. 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
Sublime
Medieval Period
Alexander Pope
Ideology
30. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Victorian Period
Allegory
Prosody
Verisimilitude
31. 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
William Shakespeare
terza rima
Aestheticism
Epic
32. (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
Satire
Augustan Period
Canon
Imagery
33. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
Victorian Period
Stanza
Anadiplosis
34. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Beowulf
Jane Austen
The Renaissance
Condition of England novel
35. 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.
Personification
Chiasmus
Trace
Cycle
36. 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.
Hyperbole
Chivalry
Marginalization
Epode
37. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Elegy
blank verse
Antistrophe
Stream-of-consciousness
38. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Condition of England novel
Soliloquy
Marginalization
Epic
39. 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.
Epic Simile
Allegory
Free verse
Satire
40. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Romantic Period
Trace
Stream-of-consciousness
William Wordsworth
41. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Anacoluthon
Free verse
Christopher Marlowe
Beowulf
42. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Samuel Johnson
Mystery plays
Irony
Sensation
43. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Verisimilitude
William Shakespeare
Marginalization
Satire
44. 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.
Serialized Novels
Antistrophe
Verisimilitude
New Criticism
45. 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
Epic
Villanelle
Strophe
Fashionable novel
46. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Meter
Rhyme scheme
Irony
Connotation
47. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fashionable novel
Antistrophe
Bidungsroman
48. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Hyperbole
Abstraction
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Serialized Novels
49. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Epic
Personification
Rhyme scheme
Vignette
50. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Soliloquy
Dramatic Monologue
Cycle
Tone