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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Epic Simile
Epistles
Charles Dickens
Tetralogy
2. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Chiasmus
Tetralogy
Panegyric
Condition of England novel
3. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphor
Connotation
First Folio
Metaphysical poetry
4. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Hyperbole
Villanelle
Tone
New Criticism
5. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
blank verse
Epistolary novel
Panegyric
Assonance
6. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Chivalry
Epistolary Novels
Gothic novels
Rhyme scheme
7. 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
Rhyme scheme
Verisimilitude
Villanelle
Jane Austen
8. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Stanza
Epic Simile
Anadiplosis
First Folio
9. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Bidungsroman
Eclogues
Epistolary novel
Metaphysical poetry
10. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Eclogues
Aestheticism
roman a clef
Villanelle
11. 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'
Ode
Romantic Period
terza rima
Anacoluthon
12. 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'
Personification
Satire
Alliteration
Irony
13. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
John Milton
Epistolary novel
Strophe
Free indirect discourse
14. 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'
Irony
Anadiplosis
Mystery plays
Antistrophe
15. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Victorian Period
Epithalamium
Hyperbole
Meter
16. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Victorian Period
Essay
Ode
Epic
17. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Villanelle
Daniel Defoe
Theater of the absurd
Imagery
18. 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.
Essay
Villanelle
heroic couple
Free verse
19. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Aestheticism
Metaphysical poetry
Aubade
Gothic novels
20. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Neo-Platonism
Epithalamium
Aporia
Connotation
21. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
First Folio
Rhyme scheme
Aporia
Strophe
22. 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
Theater of the absurd
Free verse
Beowulf
Connotation
23. A group of four works
Ode
Tetralogy
Mystification
Vignette
24. Romantic period;
Victorian Period
William Wordsworth
Epistolary Novels
Foreshadow
25. To put or publish. Published novel
Serialized Novels
Stream-of-consciousness
Tetralogy
Chiasmus
26. 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
Sensation
Alexander Pope
Imagery
Dramatic Irony
27. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Epithalamium
Soliloquy
Foreshadow
Imagery
28. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Villanelle
Connotation
Condition of England novel
Epode
29. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Chiasmus
Victorian Period
Elegy
terza rima
30. 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.
Anacoluthon
Metaphor
Prosody
Fashionable novel
31. 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.
Connotation
Personification
Epode
Dramatic Monologue
32. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Ideology
John Milton
Canon
Dramatic Monologue
33. 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.
Dramatic Irony
Beowulf
Antistrophe
Enjambment
34. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Romantic Period
Meter
Villanelle
Epode
35. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Foreshadow
Allegory
Enjambment
Harangue
36. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Chiasmus
Panegyric
Ode
Prosody
37. 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
Hyperbole
William Shakespeare
Epic
Simile
38. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Jane Austen
Condition of England novel
Chiasmus
Samuel Johnson
39. Augustan Period;
Stanza
Neo-Platonism
Alexander Pope
Cycle
40. 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
Free indirect discourse
Gothic novels
Meter
Jane Austen
41. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Irony
Panegyric
Allegory
Epistolary Novels
42. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Metaphysical poetry
Assonance
43. 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.
Sublime
Alliteration
Bidungsroman
Epic Simile
44. 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.
Marginalization
Dramatic Monologue
blank verse
Alexander Pope
45. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
The Renaissance
Abstraction
Stream-of-consciousness
Stanza
46. 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
Romantic Period
Antistrophe
Ideology
Strophe
47. 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
Mystification
Epithalamium
Bidungsroman
Aubade
48. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Daniel Defoe
John Milton
Strophe
blank verse
49. (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
Anadiplosis
Epistolary novel
Stanza
The Renaissance
50. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Epistles
Jane Austen
Abstraction
Epic Simile
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