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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tetralogy
Cycle
Tone
Augustan Period
2. 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
Tetralogy
Serialized Novels
Aporia
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.
Epithalamium
Fashionable novel
Alliteration
Aubade
4. 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
Villanelle
Dramatic Irony
Epode
5. 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
Personification
Harangue
Epic
Anacoluthon
6. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
The Renaissance
Allegory
terza rima
Stream-of-consciousness
7. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Verisimilitude
Aestheticism
Ode
Ideology
8. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Satire
Epic
Imagery
Metaphor
9. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Essay
Antistrophe
Alliteration
Free indirect discourse
10. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Meter
Romantic Period
Epistolary novel
Picaresque
11. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epithalamium
Beowulf
Dramatic Irony
Jane Austen
12. 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)
Aestheticism
Irony
Mystery plays
Simile
13. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Jane Austen
Fashionable novel
Sensation
New Criticism
14. 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
Abstraction
Rhyme scheme
blank verse
Stream-of-consciousness
15. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Aubade
roman a clef
Wilfred Owen
Free indirect discourse
16. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Alliteration
Meter
Strophe
Foreshadow
17. 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.
Sublime
Trace
Epode
Theater of the absurd
18. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Tone
Prosody
Connotation
Jane Austen
19. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
First Folio
Connotation
Wilfred Owen
Anadiplosis
20. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Verisimilitude
Ode
Beowulf
Stream-of-consciousness
21. 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'
Anadiplosis
Rhyming Couplet
Mystification
Prosody
22. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Aubade
Metaphor
Ideology
Enjambment
23. 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
Harangue
First Folio
Ideology
Soliloquy
24. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Trace
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bidungsroman
First Folio
25. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
First Folio
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Metaphor
Elegy
26. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Vignette
Stanza
Anacoluthon
Satire
27. (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
The Renaissance
Assonance
Ideology
Theater of the absurd
28. 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.
Epic
Cycle
The Renaissance
Sensation
29. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Eclogues
The Renaissance
Condition of England novel
Personification
30. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Free indirect discourse
Irony
William Shakespeare
Verisimilitude
31. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Sensation
Samuel Johnson
Assonance
Foreshadow
32. 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
Epic
Hyperbole
Anacoluthon
Charles Dickens
33. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Imagery
William Shakespeare
Epic Simile
Foreshadow
34. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Tone
William Wordsworth
Medieval Period
Rhyme scheme
35. 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.
The Renaissance
Free verse
Mystification
Enjambment
36. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Mystery plays
Vignette
Victorian Period
Prosody
37. 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.
Christopher Marlowe
Dramatic Monologue
Essay
Fashionable novel
38. 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
Marginalization
Beowulf
Mystification
Prosody
39. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Epistles
Syllepsis
Iambic pentameter
Dramatic Irony
40. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Chivalry
Abstraction
Marginalization
Trace
41. 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
Ideology
Assonance
New Criticism
Picaresque
42. Romantic Period
Alliteration
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epic
Irony
43. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Jane Austen
Villanelle
Aporia
First Folio
44. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Epic
Chiasmus
Dramatic Monologue
Panegyric
45. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
roman a clef
Epistolary novel
Dramatic Monologue
Hyperbole
46. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Enjambment
Assonance
Jane Austen
Daniel Defoe
47. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Elegy
Prosody
Serialized Novels
48. 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.
Chiasmus
Picaresque
New Criticism
Antistrophe
49. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Serialized Novels
Christopher Marlowe
Foreshadow
William Shakespeare
50. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Trace
Cycle
Victorian Period
Rhyming Couplet