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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Marginalization
Imagery
heroic couple
Foreshadow
2. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Serialized Novels
Assonance
Imagery
Condition of England novel
3. Augustan Period
Samuel Johnson
Alliteration
Vignette
Beowulf
4. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
First Folio
Metaphor
Marginalization
terza rima
5. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Epic Simile
Beowulf
Stanza
Aestheticism
6. 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.
Epic
Fashionable novel
Sublime
Epistles
7. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Neo-Platonism
Villanelle
Tone
Strophe
8. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Serialized Novels
Sublime
Eclogues
Aubade
9. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
terza rima
Aporia
Simile
10. 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
Dramatic Irony
Tone
Gothic novels
Chivalry
11. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
New Criticism
Verisimilitude
Victorian Period
Imagery
12. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Metaphysical poetry
Rhyming Couplet
Satire
Alliteration
13. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Jane Austen
Epic Simile
Samuel Johnson
Epistles
14. 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.
Christopher Marlowe
heroic couple
Imagery
Epic
15. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Antistrophe
terza rima
Villanelle
Ode
16. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
Augustan Period
William Wordsworth
Bidungsroman
17. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Connotation
Serialized Novels
John Milton
Iambic pentameter
18. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
terza rima
Villanelle
blank verse
Personification
19. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Harangue
William Shakespeare
Soliloquy
First Folio
20. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
Chivalry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Beowulf
21. 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
Anadiplosis
Rhyming Couplet
Theater of the absurd
Simile
22. 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.)
Epistolary novel
Connotation
terza rima
Dramatic Irony
23. 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.
Connotation
Free indirect discourse
Chivalry
Charles Dickens
24. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Soliloquy
Tone
John Milton
Charles Dickens
25. 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
Dramatic Monologue
Medieval Period
26. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Stanza
Harangue
Victorian Period
Free verse
27. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Samuel Johnson
Elegy
Allegory
Epithalamium
28. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
Prosody
Condition of England novel
Chiasmus
29. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Free indirect discourse
Chiasmus
Personification
Epic Simile
30. Romantic Period
Dramatic Monologue
Tone
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Daniel Defoe
31. 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'
Satire
Ode
Anadiplosis
Canon
32. 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
Assonance
Gothic novels
Jane Austen
33. 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
Anadiplosis
Abstraction
Condition of England novel
Stream-of-consciousness
34. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Elegy
Iambic pentameter
Fashionable novel
Aubade
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.
Mystification
Daniel Defoe
roman a clef
Cycle
36. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Allegory
Iambic pentameter
Vignette
Aestheticism
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
Dramatic Irony
First Folio
Picaresque
Epistles
38. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Essay
Free indirect discourse
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Enjambment
39. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Ideology
Foreshadow
Irony
Jane Austen
40. 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.
Canon
Anacoluthon
First Folio
Metaphor
41. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Free indirect discourse
Theater of the absurd
Victorian Period
Dramatic Irony
42. A group of four works
Epistolary novel
Tetralogy
Alliteration
Stanza
43. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Vignette
Bidungsroman
Theater of the absurd
William Shakespeare
44. 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
Mystification
Hyperbole
Soliloquy
Allegory
45. 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
First Folio
Satire
Anadiplosis
Dramatic Irony
46. 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
Epistolary Novels
Ideology
Epic
New Criticism
47. A sentence that changes its grammatical structure in the middle - often suggest disturbance or excitement. For example: 'we had almost reached the finished line and then the race had to have been fixed from the beginning'
Epistles
Anacoluthon
roman a clef
Cycle
48. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Epic
Canon
Victorian Period
Harangue
49. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Hyperbole
Ode
Neo-Platonism
Abstraction
50. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Charles Dickens
Prosody
Connotation
Imagery
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