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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Alexander Pope
Condition of England novel
Stanza
Villanelle
2. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Enjambment
Syllepsis
blank verse
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3. 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
Eclogues
Ode
Picaresque
Elegy
4. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Free verse
Epic
Daniel Defoe
Anadiplosis
5. (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
Assonance
Rhyming Couplet
Anacoluthon
6. 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
Stream-of-consciousness
Imagery
Strophe
Bidungsroman
7. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Free indirect discourse
Tone
Jane Austen
The Renaissance
8. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
First Folio
Marginalization
Anacoluthon
Rhyme scheme
9. 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.)
Simile
terza rima
Anacoluthon
Elegy
10. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Meter
Epithalamium
Prosody
Free indirect discourse
11. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Imagery
Trace
Canon
Verisimilitude
12. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Cycle
Verisimilitude
Stanza
Foreshadow
13. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Jane Austen
Alliteration
Epistolary novel
Romantic Period
14. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Metaphor
Christopher Marlowe
Charles Dickens
terza rima
15. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Metaphor
Imagery
Prosody
Satire
16. 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
Aubade
Aestheticism
Dramatic Irony
Stream-of-consciousness
17. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Alliteration
Connotation
Irony
Enjambment
18. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Rhyme scheme
Vignette
Epistolary novel
Metaphysical poetry
19. 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
Sensation
Villanelle
Allegory
Free indirect discourse
20. 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)
Tone
Mystification
Simile
William Shakespeare
21. 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.
Cycle
Harangue
Fashionable novel
Strophe
22. 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
Chivalry
Metaphysical poetry
Eclogues
Dramatic Irony
23. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
Antistrophe
Iambic pentameter
Beowulf
24. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Epistolary novel
Metaphysical poetry
Aestheticism
Hyperbole
25. 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.
Essay
Canon
Antistrophe
Simile
26. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Irony
Alexander Pope
Ode
Dramatic Irony
27. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
Simile
Epistles
Elegy
28. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Victorian Period
Beowulf
Chiasmus
Epistolary novel
29. Augustan Period;
Syllepsis
Allegory
Alexander Pope
Theater of the absurd
30. 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.
Free verse
Sublime
Meter
Beowulf
31. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
Soliloquy
heroic couple
Romantic Period
32. 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.
Panegyric
Charles Dickens
Wilfred Owen
Dramatic Monologue
33. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Cycle
Aestheticism
Panegyric
Alliteration
34. 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.
Abstraction
Epode
Elegy
Epic
35. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
William Shakespeare
Epistolary novel
Stream-of-consciousness
Picaresque
36. Romantic Period
Epic Simile
Medieval Period
Epode
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
37. 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
Hyperbole
Ideology
Bidungsroman
Connotation
38. 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'
Dramatic Irony
Stanza
Anadiplosis
Augustan Period
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
Free verse
Epistolary novel
Gothic novels
Sensation
40. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Canon
Connotation
Dramatic Irony
Harangue
41. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Daniel Defoe
Syllepsis
Free indirect discourse
42. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Wilfred Owen
Beowulf
Elegy
Simile
43. 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
Gothic novels
Allegory
Epic
Enjambment
44. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Condition of England novel
Essay
Alliteration
Satire
45. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Mystery plays
Harangue
Mystification
Augustan Period
46. 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.
Dramatic Irony
Prosody
Foreshadow
Chivalry
47. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Harangue
Personification
Allegory
Hyperbole
48. Augustan Period
Syllepsis
Villanelle
Picaresque
Samuel Johnson
49. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Trace
Epic Simile
Epic
Connotation
50. Letters - usually formal
Epic Simile
Epistles
Condition of England novel
Foreshadow
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