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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. To put or publish. Published novel
Serialized Novels
Stanza
Tone
John Milton
2. 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
Augustan Period
Harangue
Metaphysical poetry
Bidungsroman
3. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Stream-of-consciousness
Vignette
First Folio
Aestheticism
4. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
roman a clef
Alliteration
Tetralogy
Meter
5. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Villanelle
Eclogues
Aestheticism
heroic couple
6. 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.
Bidungsroman
Daniel Defoe
Romantic Period
Sublime
7. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Dramatic Monologue
Romantic Period
Simile
Epic Simile
8. 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
Villanelle
Bidungsroman
Dramatic Irony
9. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Sublime
Free verse
Satire
roman a clef
10. 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
Tetralogy
Epic
Satire
11. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Fashionable novel
Epistolary novel
William Wordsworth
Aporia
12. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Syllepsis
Dramatic Monologue
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mystery plays
13. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Hyperbole
Essay
Tetralogy
Mystification
14. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Anacoluthon
Alexander Pope
Epic
roman a clef
15. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Neo-Platonism
Eclogues
Romantic Period
Epistolary Novels
16. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Sublime
Samuel Johnson
Epic
Theater of the absurd
17. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Fashionable novel
Dramatic Monologue
Aporia
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
18. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Daniel Defoe
Personification
Augustan Period
Aubade
19. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Wilfred Owen
Epistles
Tone
Rhyming Couplet
20. (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
Augustan Period
Sensation
Rhyming Couplet
roman a clef
21. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Sublime
Fashionable novel
Augustan Period
Sensation
22. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Picaresque
Epistolary Novels
Mystification
Foreshadow
23. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
Metaphysical poetry
Jane Austen
Harangue
24. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Charles Dickens
Canon
Imagery
Verisimilitude
25. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mystification
Charles Dickens
Epithalamium
26. 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.
Aubade
Condition of England novel
Epode
Verisimilitude
27. A group of four works
Cycle
Iambic pentameter
Rhyme scheme
Tetralogy
28. 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
Jane Austen
New Criticism
Alliteration
29. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
Fashionable novel
Iambic pentameter
Satire
30. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Vignette
Hyperbole
Irony
Rhyme scheme
31. 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
Epic
blank verse
terza rima
32. Romantic Period
Sublime
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Stanza
Free verse
33. 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
Harangue
Soliloquy
Mystification
Dramatic Irony
34. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Alexander Pope
Free indirect discourse
roman a clef
Jane Austen
35. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
John Milton
The Renaissance
terza rima
blank verse
36. 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
Prosody
Medieval Period
Verisimilitude
37. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Neo-Platonism
Stream-of-consciousness
Fashionable novel
38. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Alliteration
Aestheticism
Stanza
Victorian Period
39. 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
heroic couple
Hyperbole
Epic
Verisimilitude
40. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
William Wordsworth
Rhyme scheme
Canon
Free indirect discourse
41. 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
Ideology
Serialized Novels
Alexander Pope
Picaresque
42. 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
Daniel Defoe
Aubade
Picaresque
43. 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.
Theater of the absurd
Antistrophe
Augustan Period
Beowulf
44. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Canon
Connotation
Epic Simile
Fashionable novel
45. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Epode
Canon
Satire
Wilfred Owen
46. Augustan Period
Tone
Soliloquy
Samuel Johnson
Sensation
47. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Rhyming Couplet
Chivalry
Trace
Romantic Period
48. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Rhyme scheme
Connotation
Bidungsroman
Metaphysical poetry
49. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
John Milton
Iambic pentameter
Metaphor
50. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Rhyme scheme
Epistolary Novels
Foreshadow
Aestheticism