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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Epic
Samuel Johnson
Ode
Neo-Platonism
2. 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.
Wilfred Owen
Antistrophe
Epic
Free verse
3. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Aestheticism
heroic couple
Abstraction
terza rima
4. 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
Imagery
Tone
New Criticism
Vignette
5. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystification
Samuel Johnson
Epic
Prosody
6. 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.
Wilfred Owen
Theater of the absurd
Antistrophe
Verisimilitude
7. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Mystification
Connotation
Assonance
Marginalization
8. 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
Epistolary novel
Stream-of-consciousness
Ode
9. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Medieval Period
William Shakespeare
Condition of England novel
Strophe
10. 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.
Foreshadow
Chivalry
Victorian Period
Elegy
11. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Wilfred Owen
Epistolary Novels
Antistrophe
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'
Augustan Period
Stream-of-consciousness
Connotation
Anadiplosis
13. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Simile
terza rima
Aubade
14. 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.
Hyperbole
Vignette
Victorian Period
Aubade
15. 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
Dramatic Irony
Aporia
Hyperbole
Beowulf
16. Romantic period;
Imagery
William Wordsworth
Free indirect discourse
Harangue
17. 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
Picaresque
Anacoluthon
Aporia
First Folio
18. (1670-1790) identified literature as a worthy cultural pursuit capable of reconciling respect for classical learning with the evolving interests and tastes of the educated middle class. Translated - imitated - and elucidated the most respectable anci
Christopher Marlowe
Strophe
Augustan Period
Enjambment
19. To put or publish. Published novel
Meter
Epic
Foreshadow
Serialized Novels
20. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Allegory
Medieval Period
Aestheticism
Chiasmus
21. A group of four works
Connotation
Tetralogy
Satire
blank verse
22. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Canon
William Shakespeare
Epistolary novel
Chivalry
23. 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'
Gothic novels
Irony
Mystification
Epic
24. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Mystery plays
Simile
Daniel Defoe
Fashionable novel
25. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Satire
Personification
Stanza
Free verse
26. 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.
Simile
Epic
Tone
Chivalry
27. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
heroic couple
Metaphysical poetry
Charles Dickens
Syllepsis
28. (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
Rhyme scheme
Rhyming Couplet
The Renaissance
Aporia
29. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Chivalry
Personification
Alliteration
Elegy
30. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Panegyric
Chivalry
Harangue
blank verse
31. 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
Epithalamium
Epic
Harangue
32. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Connotation
Metaphor
Eclogues
Chiasmus
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.
Mystery plays
Cycle
Medieval Period
Epistles
34. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Hyperbole
Rhyming Couplet
Sublime
Chiasmus
35. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Theater of the absurd
roman a clef
Assonance
Daniel Defoe
36. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Strophe
Alexander Pope
Epithalamium
Christopher Marlowe
37. Letters - usually formal
Tone
Simile
roman a clef
Epistles
38. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Fashionable novel
Tone
Rhyming Couplet
39. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Metaphysical poetry
Satire
Fashionable novel
Samuel Johnson
40. (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
Augustan Period
terza rima
41. 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
Dramatic Irony
Strophe
Chiasmus
Epic
42. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Daniel Defoe
John Milton
Alliteration
Trace
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
Sensation
Antistrophe
Iambic pentameter
Epithalamium
44. 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
Ideology
Foreshadow
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epistolary Novels
45. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Strophe
Anadiplosis
blank verse
Metaphor
46. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
Epithalamium
William Wordsworth
Rhyming Couplet
47. 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
blank verse
Anadiplosis
Gothic novels
Connotation
48. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Aestheticism
Aporia
Verisimilitude
Harangue
49. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Samuel Johnson
Anadiplosis
Elegy
William Shakespeare
50. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Enjambment
Medieval Period
Epode
Free indirect discourse