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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
Hyperbole
Tone
Metaphor
Serialized Novels
2. 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
Epic
Alexander Pope
Villanelle
Iambic pentameter
3. 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.
Eclogues
Verisimilitude
Cycle
The Renaissance
4. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Epistolary Novels
Simile
John Milton
Stanza
5. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Epistolary novel
William Shakespeare
Ode
Stanza
6. 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
First Folio
Dramatic Irony
Hyperbole
Picaresque
7. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Simile
Enjambment
Personification
Fashionable novel
8. 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'
Simile
Alliteration
Anadiplosis
Verisimilitude
9. 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'
Neo-Platonism
Anacoluthon
Chiasmus
Satire
10. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Chiasmus
Stream-of-consciousness
Iambic pentameter
Free indirect discourse
11. 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.
Antistrophe
Epode
Elegy
Soliloquy
12. 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
Romantic Period
Villanelle
First Folio
heroic couple
13. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
blank verse
Fashionable novel
Satire
Theater of the absurd
14. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
Sensation
Satire
Cycle
15. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
blank verse
Beowulf
Medieval Period
Alliteration
16. 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
Stream-of-consciousness
Essay
Marginalization
Anadiplosis
17. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Neo-Platonism
Stream-of-consciousness
Christopher Marlowe
Simile
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
Fashionable novel
Strophe
Augustan Period
Villanelle
19. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Imagery
Rhyming Couplet
Panegyric
Medieval Period
20. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Assonance
Ideology
Mystery plays
roman a clef
21. The rhythmic structure of poetry
New Criticism
Meter
Foreshadow
Anacoluthon
22. 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
Cycle
Ideology
Aubade
Strophe
23. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Trace
Epic Simile
Stream-of-consciousness
Anacoluthon
24. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Christopher Marlowe
Connotation
Imagery
Irony
25. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Abstraction
Harangue
Mystery plays
Fashionable novel
26. 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
Eclogues
Soliloquy
Serialized Novels
27. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Free verse
Panegyric
Condition of England novel
Picaresque
28. 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)
Gothic novels
Simile
John Milton
Epistles
29. 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
Free indirect discourse
Free verse
Mystification
New Criticism
30. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Aubade
Syllepsis
blank verse
Ode
31. 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
Dramatic Monologue
Bidungsroman
Meter
Anadiplosis
32. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Hyperbole
Epistolary novel
William Wordsworth
Antistrophe
33. 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.
Tetralogy
Abstraction
Free verse
Augustan Period
34. 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.)
Irony
Panegyric
terza rima
Cycle
35. Romantic Period
William Shakespeare
Bidungsroman
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
roman a clef
36. To put or publish. Published novel
Aestheticism
Trace
Serialized Novels
Mystification
37. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Aporia
Assonance
Meter
Anacoluthon
38. 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'
Villanelle
Daniel Defoe
Irony
Mystification
39. (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
Alexander Pope
Rhyming Couplet
Stream-of-consciousness
The Renaissance
40. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Metaphysical poetry
Jane Austen
Eclogues
Metaphor
41. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Condition of England novel
Personification
Augustan Period
Villanelle
42. Augustan Period
Epode
Samuel Johnson
Canon
Charles Dickens
43. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Victorian Period
Hyperbole
Canon
Soliloquy
44. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
terza rima
Aestheticism
Villanelle
45. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Victorian Period
Ideology
Alexander Pope
46. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Mystery plays
Condition of England novel
Marginalization
Anadiplosis
47. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
William Wordsworth
Enjambment
Syllepsis
Condition of England novel
48. 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
Simile
blank verse
Antistrophe
49. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Medieval Period
Victorian Period
Imagery
Epithalamium
50. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Serialized Novels
Epithalamium
Metaphysical poetry
Dramatic Irony