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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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.
Condition of England novel
New Criticism
Soliloquy
Cycle
2. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
William Wordsworth
Foreshadow
Epistles
Epic Simile
3. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Epic
Epistolary novel
Wilfred Owen
Aporia
4. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Hyperbole
Epic Simile
Gothic novels
roman a clef
5. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
Wilfred Owen
Augustan Period
Epithalamium
6. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Samuel Johnson
Christopher Marlowe
Connotation
Strophe
7. A couplet is a pair of lines of verse. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme - not all do
Antistrophe
Personification
Anacoluthon
Rhyming Couplet
8. (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
Alexander Pope
Condition of England novel
Aubade
9. Romantic period;
Gothic novels
Beowulf
William Wordsworth
Alexander Pope
10. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Ideology
Prosody
Marginalization
Enjambment
11. 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.)
terza rima
Soliloquy
Epic Simile
heroic couple
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
Trace
Sensation
Vignette
heroic couple
13. 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
Charles Dickens
Tetralogy
Syllepsis
Gothic novels
14. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Stream-of-consciousness
Eclogues
Fashionable novel
Irony
15. (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
Serialized Novels
Trace
Rhyme scheme
16. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Jane Austen
Sublime
Anadiplosis
Trace
17. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Sensation
Free indirect discourse
Ode
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
18. Romantic Period
Serialized Novels
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Metaphor
Canon
19. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Soliloquy
Ideology
Canon
Antistrophe
20. The rhythmic structure of poetry
John Milton
Metaphysical poetry
Meter
Vignette
21. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Medieval Period
Foreshadow
blank verse
Aubade
22. 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
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Villanelle
Mystery plays
heroic couple
23. 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
Canon
Satire
Free verse
24. 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
Iambic pentameter
Villanelle
Ode
Hyperbole
25. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Neo-Platonism
Imagery
Metaphor
blank verse
26. To put or publish. Published novel
Sensation
terza rima
Tone
Serialized Novels
27. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Sensation
heroic couple
Mystification
Eclogues
28. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Alliteration
Rhyming Couplet
Rhyme scheme
Neo-Platonism
29. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Chiasmus
Epistolary novel
Foreshadow
30. 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
Jane Austen
Aubade
Epic
Enjambment
31. Letters - usually formal
Epistles
Imagery
Free indirect discourse
Condition of England novel
32. Augustan Period;
Mystification
Eclogues
Alexander Pope
Anadiplosis
33. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Epistolary Novels
Prosody
Romantic Period
Alexander Pope
34. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Hyperbole
Meter
Condition of England novel
Assonance
35. 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'
Jane Austen
Aestheticism
Anadiplosis
Harangue
36. 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.
Verisimilitude
Metaphor
Neo-Platonism
Christopher Marlowe
37. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Assonance
Tone
William Shakespeare
Romantic Period
38. Augustan Period
First Folio
Samuel Johnson
Aubade
Villanelle
39. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Epic
Syllepsis
Essay
Connotation
40. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Allegory
Hyperbole
Cycle
Daniel Defoe
41. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Iambic pentameter
Simile
Verisimilitude
The Renaissance
42. 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.
Stream-of-consciousness
Bidungsroman
Chivalry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
43. 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)
Prosody
Chivalry
Simile
blank verse
44. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Metaphor
Personification
Vignette
Iambic pentameter
45. 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.
Tetralogy
Strophe
Harangue
blank verse
46. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Epode
heroic couple
blank verse
Satire
47. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Neo-Platonism
Soliloquy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Metaphysical poetry
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.
Sensation
Sublime
Meter
Personification
49. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Mystery plays
Marginalization
Harangue
Chivalry
50. 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
Epode
Essay
Aubade
Picaresque