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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Eclogues
Free verse
Mystification
First Folio
2. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Augustan Period
William Shakespeare
Stanza
New Criticism
3. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Aestheticism
Anacoluthon
Epistolary novel
Ode
4. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Epic Simile
Abstraction
Trace
Enjambment
5. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Stream-of-consciousness
Christopher Marlowe
Abstraction
First Folio
6. 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
Cycle
Simile
Prosody
7. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Jane Austen
Epistolary novel
William Shakespeare
Sublime
8. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Epistolary novel
Epic
Victorian Period
Sensation
9. 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.
Epistolary Novels
Samuel Johnson
Metaphor
Essay
10. 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
Bidungsroman
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
heroic couple
Allegory
11. 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.
Dramatic Irony
Stanza
Condition of England novel
Chivalry
12. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Vignette
Sensation
Christopher Marlowe
Theater of the absurd
13. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Eclogues
Epistolary novel
Mystification
Sublime
14. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
The Renaissance
Enjambment
Anadiplosis
Free verse
15. Romantic Period
Condition of England novel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Foreshadow
William Shakespeare
16. 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
New Criticism
Epic Simile
Elegy
Villanelle
17. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Mystification
Free indirect discourse
Epithalamium
Essay
18. 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
Mystification
Aestheticism
Beowulf
Metaphor
19. 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
New Criticism
Soliloquy
terza rima
20. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Aubade
Enjambment
William Shakespeare
Essay
21. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Enjambment
Metaphor
Iambic pentameter
22. 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
Mystification
Stanza
Picaresque
Hyperbole
23. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
heroic couple
Serialized Novels
Marginalization
Syllepsis
24. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Antistrophe
Hyperbole
Imagery
Alliteration
25. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Assonance
Panegyric
Mystification
Theater of the absurd
26. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Enjambment
Aporia
heroic couple
Epistolary Novels
27. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Aestheticism
Personification
Condition of England novel
Strophe
28. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Beowulf
terza rima
Chiasmus
Verisimilitude
29. Letters - usually formal
Rhyming Couplet
Epistles
Verisimilitude
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30. (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
heroic couple
Dramatic Monologue
Chiasmus
31. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Picaresque
Prosody
Rhyming Couplet
Connotation
32. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Syllepsis
First Folio
Mystery plays
Aubade
33. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Aestheticism
Epithalamium
Connotation
Epode
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.)
Prosody
Charles Dickens
terza rima
roman a clef
35. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Sublime
Trace
Ideology
Foreshadow
36. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Sublime
Aestheticism
Dramatic Irony
Panegyric
37. Augustan Period;
William Wordsworth
Aubade
Epithalamium
Alexander Pope
38. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Ideology
Ode
Samuel Johnson
Neo-Platonism
39. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Stanza
William Shakespeare
New Criticism
Alexander Pope
40. 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
Ideology
Sublime
Alexander Pope
41. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Trace
Daniel Defoe
Canon
Condition of England novel
42. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Metaphysical poetry
Wilfred Owen
Theater of the absurd
Syllepsis
43. 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.
Wilfred Owen
Dramatic Monologue
Irony
Daniel Defoe
44. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
Simile
Cycle
Rhyme scheme
45. 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
heroic couple
Verisimilitude
Panegyric
Jane Austen
46. 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'
Verisimilitude
Anadiplosis
Sensation
Stanza
47. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Enjambment
Epistles
Chivalry
Epistolary Novels
48. 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.
Trace
Sublime
Allegory
Ode
49. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Chiasmus
Mystery plays
Serialized Novels
50. 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
Epode
Epic
Epistles
William Shakespeare
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