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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Iambic pentameter
Allegory
Connotation
William Shakespeare
2. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
Hyperbole
Epic
Romantic Period
3. Augustan Period
Mystery plays
Samuel Johnson
Romantic Period
Sublime
4. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Free verse
Aporia
Marginalization
Alliteration
5. A literary - usually verse composition in which a speaker reveals his or her character - often in relation to a critical situation or event - in a monologue addressed to the reader or to a presumed listener.
Epic Simile
heroic couple
Vignette
Dramatic Monologue
6. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Gothic novels
Personification
Eclogues
New Criticism
7. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
blank verse
Condition of England novel
Wilfred Owen
Stanza
8. Romantic period;
Vignette
Victorian Period
William Wordsworth
Canon
9. 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
Villanelle
Metaphor
Epistles
Epithalamium
10. 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
Vignette
Epithalamium
John Milton
11. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Villanelle
Panegyric
Daniel Defoe
Mystification
12. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Mystery plays
Enjambment
Samuel Johnson
Harangue
13. 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.
Samuel Johnson
Simile
William Shakespeare
Epode
14. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Imagery
Mystery plays
Picaresque
The Renaissance
15. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Antistrophe
Soliloquy
Aestheticism
Charles Dickens
16. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Neo-Platonism
Rhyming Couplet
Theater of the absurd
Cycle
17. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Romantic Period
Antistrophe
Connotation
Aporia
18. 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.
Verisimilitude
Mystification
terza rima
Epic
19. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Elegy
Samuel Johnson
Victorian Period
Rhyming Couplet
20. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
terza rima
Dramatic Monologue
roman a clef
Romantic Period
21. 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.)
Christopher Marlowe
Strophe
terza rima
Rhyme scheme
22. Romantic Period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ode
Aubade
First Folio
23. 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
Connotation
Epithalamium
Anacoluthon
heroic couple
24. 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
Sublime
Bidungsroman
John Milton
Foreshadow
25. 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 Monologue
Hyperbole
Marginalization
Imagery
26. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Anacoluthon
Antistrophe
Foreshadow
Victorian Period
27. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Chiasmus
John Milton
Aestheticism
Elegy
28. 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.
Syllepsis
Chivalry
Panegyric
Canon
29. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
William Wordsworth
Satire
Sublime
Mystery plays
30. 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'
Anadiplosis
William Shakespeare
Chivalry
Aporia
31. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Rhyme scheme
Condition of England novel
Chiasmus
Epode
32. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Trace
blank verse
Satire
Epic
33. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
Sublime
Charles Dickens
Imagery
34. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Augustan Period
Christopher Marlowe
Villanelle
Daniel Defoe
35. 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
Free verse
Sensation
Epic
36. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Antistrophe
Alliteration
Stanza
Metaphysical poetry
37. 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
Epistolary Novels
Picaresque
Free verse
38. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Chiasmus
Stream-of-consciousness
blank verse
Personification
39. 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
Tone
Canon
Gothic novels
Marginalization
40. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Meter
Assonance
Essay
Eclogues
41. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Connotation
Epistolary Novels
Free verse
Canon
42. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Abstraction
Jane Austen
Romantic Period
Meter
43. 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
New Criticism
Christopher Marlowe
Chiasmus
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
Panegyric
Assonance
Antistrophe
New Criticism
45. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Connotation
Trace
Satire
Epic Simile
46. 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
Personification
Anacoluthon
Antistrophe
47. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
First Folio
Medieval Period
Theater of the absurd
Epistles
48. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Beowulf
Aubade
William Wordsworth
49. 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.
Charles Dickens
Aporia
Tone
Strophe
50. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Enjambment
Connotation
Chiasmus
Elegy
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