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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Villanelle
Metaphor
Gothic novels
2. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Enjambment
First Folio
Panegyric
Neo-Platonism
3. (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
Metaphysical poetry
Aubade
Victorian Period
4. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
Stanza
Christopher Marlowe
New Criticism
5. 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'
Wilfred Owen
Anacoluthon
Eclogues
Syllepsis
6. 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
Epic
Picaresque
Marginalization
Syllepsis
7. Letters - usually formal
Epistles
Connotation
Serialized Novels
Alexander Pope
8. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
Epistles
Satire
Verisimilitude
9. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Rhyming Couplet
Aubade
Ode
Fashionable novel
10. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
roman a clef
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Cycle
Chiasmus
11. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
Dramatic Monologue
Vignette
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Gothic novels
Essay
Dramatic Irony
Soliloquy
13. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Villanelle
Meter
Free indirect discourse
Chiasmus
14. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Stanza
First Folio
Meter
Free indirect discourse
15. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Marginalization
Victorian Period
roman a clef
Beowulf
16. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Epode
Epic
Epistolary novel
The Renaissance
17. 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.
Ideology
Strophe
Panegyric
Jane Austen
18. A group of four works
Villanelle
Tetralogy
Panegyric
Allegory
19. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
Wilfred Owen
Connotation
Meter
20. 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.
blank verse
Epic
Fashionable novel
Stanza
21. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Stanza
Epistles
roman a clef
Romantic Period
22. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Mystery plays
Metaphysical poetry
Daniel Defoe
Satire
23. 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
Serialized Novels
Christopher Marlowe
24. 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
Iambic pentameter
Antistrophe
Alexander Pope
Syllepsis
25. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
Chiasmus
Bidungsroman
Serialized Novels
26. 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.
Augustan Period
Dramatic Monologue
Anadiplosis
Antistrophe
27. (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
Eclogues
Augustan Period
Enjambment
Abstraction
28. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Simile
Charles Dickens
Serialized Novels
Prosody
29. 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
William Shakespeare
Dramatic Irony
Rhyme scheme
Epic Simile
30. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Daniel Defoe
Meter
Foreshadow
31. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Tone
Epode
Foreshadow
heroic couple
32. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Metaphysical poetry
Epic
Daniel Defoe
Antistrophe
33. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Medieval Period
Imagery
Assonance
Fashionable novel
34. 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.
Marginalization
Harangue
Hyperbole
Chivalry
35. 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.
John Milton
Alliteration
Panegyric
Cycle
36. 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
Villanelle
Alexander Pope
Essay
Serialized Novels
37. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Hyperbole
Assonance
Daniel Defoe
Rhyme scheme
38. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Rhyming Couplet
Stanza
Cycle
Vignette
39. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
First Folio
Charles Dickens
Marginalization
Enjambment
40. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epithalamium
Christopher Marlowe
Eclogues
Irony
41. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Abstraction
Dramatic Irony
Beowulf
Eclogues
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.
Alliteration
Chivalry
Epode
New Criticism
43. To put or publish. Published novel
Sensation
Epistles
Serialized Novels
Simile
44. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Canon
Tone
Epithalamium
The Renaissance
45. 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
roman a clef
First Folio
The Renaissance
46. 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
Gothic novels
Epithalamium
Canon
Wilfred Owen
47. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Alexander Pope
Eclogues
Medieval Period
Verisimilitude
48. Romantic period;
Marginalization
Sensation
Daniel Defoe
William Wordsworth
49. 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
Theater of the absurd
Gothic novels
Satire
Bidungsroman
50. 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
Ideology
Condition of England novel
Hyperbole
Jane Austen