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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Tone
Harangue
John Milton
Villanelle
2. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
First Folio
Anadiplosis
Cycle
Rhyming Couplet
3. To put or publish. Published novel
Simile
Serialized Novels
Anacoluthon
Assonance
4. 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.
Epode
Victorian Period
William Wordsworth
Aubade
5. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
William Wordsworth
Imagery
Mystery plays
Trace
6. 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
Strophe
Epistolary Novels
Dramatic Monologue
7. 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
Picaresque
Elegy
Epistolary Novels
Ideology
8. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Abstraction
John Milton
Rhyming Couplet
Soliloquy
9. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Christopher Marlowe
Panegyric
Fashionable novel
Allegory
10. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
Syllepsis
Epic
Allegory
11. Romantic Period
Dramatic Irony
Medieval Period
Epistolary Novels
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystification
Bidungsroman
Ideology
Charles Dickens
13. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Irony
Romantic Period
Condition of England novel
Essay
14. 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.
Condition of England novel
Serialized Novels
Panegyric
Antistrophe
15. 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
Soliloquy
Tone
Epic Simile
Dramatic Irony
16. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Irony
Alexander Pope
Wilfred Owen
Harangue
17. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Canon
Free verse
Vignette
Satire
18. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Foreshadow
Strophe
Canon
Aubade
19. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Panegyric
Epic
Foreshadow
Tone
20. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
John Milton
Epic Simile
Gothic novels
Elegy
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
Epic
Free verse
New Criticism
The Renaissance
22. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Epistolary novel
Villanelle
Antistrophe
Stanza
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.
Chivalry
Assonance
Rhyme scheme
Medieval Period
24. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Stream-of-consciousness
Verisimilitude
Marginalization
Syllepsis
25. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Mystification
Syllepsis
Metaphysical poetry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
26. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Bidungsroman
Epithalamium
Rhyme scheme
Soliloquy
27. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Condition of England novel
roman a clef
Aporia
Verisimilitude
28. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Free indirect discourse
Verisimilitude
Sublime
Strophe
29. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Picaresque
Sensation
Augustan Period
Mystery plays
30. 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
Aporia
Trace
heroic couple
31. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Mystification
Villanelle
Essay
John Milton
32. Augustan Period
Foreshadow
Samuel Johnson
Serialized Novels
Tetralogy
33. 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.
Essay
Cycle
Stream-of-consciousness
Epistles
34. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tone
Epistolary Novels
Chiasmus
Ideology
35. Letters - usually formal
Epistles
Picaresque
Panegyric
Abstraction
36. Romantic period;
Hyperbole
Daniel Defoe
William Wordsworth
Condition of England novel
37. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Epistles
Marginalization
Victorian Period
Panegyric
38. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Villanelle
Trace
Epic Simile
Chiasmus
39. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Eclogues
Stream-of-consciousness
Condition of England novel
40. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Epic
Ode
Ideology
Sensation
41. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Trace
Ideology
Epic Simile
William Shakespeare
42. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Jane Austen
Ideology
Epic
Free verse
43. A group of four works
Tetralogy
Daniel Defoe
Chiasmus
Cycle
44. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Alliteration
Marginalization
roman a clef
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
45. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Wilfred Owen
Metaphor
terza rima
46. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Mystery plays
Aporia
Epic Simile
Dramatic Irony
47. 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
Allegory
Free verse
Medieval Period
Hyperbole
48. 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
Augustan Period
Metaphysical poetry
Alexander Pope
Picaresque
49. 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'
Dramatic Irony
Anacoluthon
Aporia
Medieval Period
50. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Neo-Platonism
Iambic pentameter
Dramatic Irony
Trace