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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystification
Bidungsroman
Tetralogy
Assonance
2. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Dramatic Irony
Strophe
Foreshadow
Epistolary novel
3. 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
Connotation
Rhyming Couplet
Epic
Aubade
4. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Chivalry
Charles Dickens
Verisimilitude
John Milton
5. 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.
Strophe
Soliloquy
Metaphor
Serialized Novels
6. A group of four works
Irony
Mystification
William Wordsworth
Tetralogy
7. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Vignette
Harangue
Romantic Period
Rhyme scheme
8. 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.
Epic
Daniel Defoe
Dramatic Irony
Free verse
9. (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
Tetralogy
Panegyric
Chiasmus
The Renaissance
10. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Epistolary Novels
Mystification
Wilfred Owen
Beowulf
11. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Aporia
Meter
Epode
Chiasmus
12. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
John Milton
Stream-of-consciousness
Soliloquy
Rhyming Couplet
13. Romantic Period
Satire
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Renaissance
Epic
14. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
Connotation
Trace
Epithalamium
15. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Aporia
Assonance
Picaresque
Charles Dickens
16. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Metaphysical poetry
Victorian Period
Meter
Trace
17. 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'
Ideology
Anacoluthon
Gothic novels
Dramatic Monologue
18. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Fashionable novel
Syllepsis
Imagery
Personification
19. 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.
heroic couple
Tetralogy
Dramatic Monologue
Bidungsroman
20. 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.
Chiasmus
Chivalry
Charles Dickens
Bidungsroman
21. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Bidungsroman
New Criticism
Prosody
Personification
22. 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'
Elegy
Verisimilitude
Metaphysical poetry
Irony
23. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Epic Simile
Assonance
Imagery
blank verse
24. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Ideology
Epithalamium
heroic couple
Rhyme scheme
25. 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
Bidungsroman
Iambic pentameter
Prosody
Strophe
26. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Allegory
Epode
Fashionable novel
Epic Simile
27. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Epithalamium
Canon
roman a clef
Epic Simile
28. 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
Anacoluthon
Samuel Johnson
New Criticism
Medieval Period
29. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Dramatic Monologue
Essay
Beowulf
Chivalry
30. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tone
Victorian Period
Epithalamium
John Milton
31. 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
Alexander Pope
Simile
Aestheticism
32. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Epistolary novel
Fashionable novel
Rhyme scheme
Anacoluthon
33. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Prosody
Sensation
Verisimilitude
Soliloquy
34. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Aestheticism
Alliteration
William Wordsworth
35. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Medieval Period
Serialized Novels
Canon
Picaresque
36. 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
Metaphysical poetry
Samuel Johnson
Trace
Epic
37. 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
Beowulf
Elegy
Free indirect discourse
Anadiplosis
38. 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.)
Essay
William Wordsworth
terza rima
Gothic novels
39. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Samuel Johnson
Allegory
Epic
Alliteration
40. 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)
Simile
Iambic pentameter
Eclogues
Epode
41. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Epistolary Novels
Epistles
Meter
William Shakespeare
42. 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
Mystery plays
Cycle
Anadiplosis
43. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Epithalamium
Victorian Period
Mystification
Sublime
44. (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
William Shakespeare
Augustan Period
Theater of the absurd
45. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Epistolary Novels
Mystery plays
Syllepsis
Connotation
46. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Wilfred Owen
Christopher Marlowe
Jane Austen
Daniel Defoe
47. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Mystery plays
Condition of England novel
Connotation
Stream-of-consciousness
48. Letters - usually formal
Epistolary Novels
Foreshadow
Epistles
Metaphysical poetry
49. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Personification
Strophe
Marginalization
Wilfred Owen
50. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Tone
Cycle
Sublime