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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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.
Augustan Period
Christopher Marlowe
Prosody
Epode
2. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
heroic couple
Ideology
Ode
Vignette
3. 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.
Romantic Period
William Shakespeare
Bidungsroman
Aubade
4. 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
Dramatic Irony
Villanelle
Sublime
Iambic pentameter
5. 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.
Sublime
Chivalry
Theater of the absurd
Prosody
6. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Iambic pentameter
Epic Simile
Ode
7. 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
Victorian Period
Condition of England novel
New Criticism
Epistles
8. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Soliloquy
heroic couple
Medieval Period
Foreshadow
9. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Irony
Aporia
Charles Dickens
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
roman a clef
Free verse
Mystery plays
Gothic novels
11. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Metaphysical poetry
Soliloquy
Rhyming Couplet
Ode
12. 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
terza rima
Satire
blank verse
13. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Eclogues
William Wordsworth
Epistolary Novels
Ode
14. 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.
Simile
Jane Austen
Strophe
Serialized Novels
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
Christopher Marlowe
Dramatic Irony
Connotation
Allegory
16. 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.
Medieval Period
Epic
Metaphysical poetry
Hyperbole
17. 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
Meter
Alliteration
heroic couple
Vignette
18. 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'
Rhyming Couplet
Anadiplosis
Aubade
Sublime
19. 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.
Syllepsis
Antistrophe
Sensation
Simile
20. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Stanza
Romantic Period
Syllepsis
Aubade
21. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Neo-Platonism
Metaphysical poetry
Sublime
Medieval Period
22. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
blank verse
Aestheticism
Epic Simile
Tetralogy
23. Letters - usually formal
Mystification
Free indirect discourse
Epistles
Stanza
24. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Augustan Period
Meter
Epistolary novel
Assonance
25. 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'
Panegyric
Anacoluthon
Epic Simile
Enjambment
26. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Ideology
Satire
Tone
Epistolary novel
27. 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
Stanza
Elegy
Bidungsroman
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
28. 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
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rhyming Couplet
Ideology
Augustan Period
29. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
William Wordsworth
Medieval Period
Trace
Aestheticism
30. 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.
Dramatic Monologue
New Criticism
Cycle
Anadiplosis
31. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Canon
Elegy
John Milton
Essay
32. 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
Elegy
Christopher Marlowe
Serialized Novels
33. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Syllepsis
Neo-Platonism
Abstraction
Hyperbole
34. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Marginalization
Neo-Platonism
Metaphor
Trace
35. 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
Foreshadow
Daniel Defoe
Rhyming Couplet
Epic
36. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Beowulf
Imagery
Victorian Period
Stanza
37. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Victorian Period
Augustan Period
Connotation
Harangue
38. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Connotation
Sensation
Alexander Pope
Elegy
39. 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)
Ode
Simile
Epithalamium
Bidungsroman
40. 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
Daniel Defoe
Anacoluthon
Medieval Period
Beowulf
41. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Hyperbole
Epithalamium
Satire
William Shakespeare
42. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
blank verse
Prosody
Medieval Period
43. Romantic Period
Cycle
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epic Simile
Personification
44. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Chiasmus
heroic couple
Canon
Free verse
45. 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.
Foreshadow
Dramatic Monologue
Enjambment
Imagery
46. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Free indirect discourse
Syllepsis
Theater of the absurd
Metaphor
47. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Picaresque
Cycle
Aporia
Augustan Period
48. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Connotation
Allegory
Epistolary Novels
Epic Simile
49. 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
Epistles
Ideology
Serialized Novels
Dramatic Irony
50. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Samuel Johnson
roman a clef
Charles Dickens
Connotation