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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Mystification
Dramatic Irony
Assonance
2. 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.
William Shakespeare
Cycle
Dramatic Monologue
Epic Simile
3. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Prosody
Assonance
Eclogues
Vignette
4. A group of four works
blank verse
Tetralogy
Canon
Dramatic Irony
5. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Bidungsroman
Victorian Period
Neo-Platonism
Rhyme scheme
6. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Vignette
Verisimilitude
Dramatic Monologue
Sublime
7. 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
Villanelle
Anacoluthon
Theater of the absurd
Iambic pentameter
8. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Sublime
Allegory
Condition of England novel
Fashionable novel
9. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Meter
Rhyme scheme
Syllepsis
Free verse
10. 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)
Medieval Period
heroic couple
Simile
Stanza
11. 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
John Milton
Ideology
Victorian Period
Canon
12. 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'
Theater of the absurd
Stanza
Anadiplosis
Stream-of-consciousness
13. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Jane Austen
Beowulf
Imagery
Harangue
14. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Enjambment
Personification
Mystification
Theater of the absurd
15. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Epistles
Epistolary novel
Mystification
Allegory
16. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Dramatic Monologue
First Folio
Daniel Defoe
Sublime
17. 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
Strophe
Alexander Pope
Rhyming Couplet
18. 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.)
Sublime
Marginalization
Aestheticism
terza rima
19. 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
Chivalry
Canon
Chiasmus
Beowulf
20. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Stanza
Victorian Period
Metaphysical poetry
Allegory
21. Augustan Period
Christopher Marlowe
Rhyming Couplet
Samuel Johnson
Sensation
22. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Wilfred Owen
Satire
Epic
Aestheticism
23. Letters - usually formal
Serialized Novels
Simile
Epistles
Personification
24. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Epithalamium
Soliloquy
Alliteration
Irony
25. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Marginalization
Harangue
Assonance
Fashionable novel
26. 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
Hyperbole
Samuel Johnson
New Criticism
Verisimilitude
27. 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'
Chiasmus
Irony
heroic couple
Vignette
28. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Victorian Period
Epistolary Novels
roman a clef
Anadiplosis
29. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Verisimilitude
Dramatic Irony
Medieval Period
Personification
30. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Assonance
Daniel Defoe
Fashionable novel
Wilfred Owen
31. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Enjambment
Villanelle
Fashionable novel
Free indirect discourse
32. 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
Tetralogy
Epic
Augustan Period
33. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Alexander Pope
Aestheticism
Free verse
Epistolary Novels
34. Romantic Period
Condition of England novel
John Milton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Free indirect discourse
35. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
blank verse
Ode
Romantic Period
The Renaissance
36. To put or publish. Published novel
Epode
Stanza
Serialized Novels
Aporia
37. 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
Wilfred Owen
Fashionable novel
Vignette
Epic
38. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
John Milton
Charles Dickens
Beowulf
39. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Verisimilitude
Epode
Epic
Soliloquy
40. (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
Epistolary novel
Mystification
Epode
The Renaissance
41. 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
Rhyming Couplet
Satire
Imagery
Villanelle
42. 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.
Epic
Marginalization
Free indirect discourse
Imagery
43. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Iambic pentameter
Ode
Epithalamium
Panegyric
44. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Augustan Period
Epic
Alliteration
Condition of England novel
45. 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
Hyperbole
Bidungsroman
Metaphysical poetry
Stanza
46. A lyric from stemming from the Middle Ages that treats the subject of two lovers waking up together. It may deal with the joy of being together or with the sorrow of having to part.
Beowulf
Irony
Chiasmus
Aubade
47. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Meter
Christopher Marlowe
Alliteration
Assonance
48. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
Villanelle
Free verse
Tone
49. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Anadiplosis
Gothic novels
Victorian Period
Simile
50. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
Harangue
Mystification
Tetralogy