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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Canon
Trace
Stanza
Verisimilitude
2. 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
Theater of the absurd
Augustan Period
heroic couple
3. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
heroic couple
Harangue
Aporia
roman a clef
4. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
New Criticism
terza rima
John Milton
Sublime
5. A group of four works
Epistolary Novels
Beowulf
Epithalamium
Tetralogy
6. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Beowulf
heroic couple
Trace
William Shakespeare
7. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
blank verse
Fashionable novel
Dramatic Irony
Canon
8. 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'
Irony
Mystification
Charles Dickens
Picaresque
9. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Romantic Period
Mystification
Tetralogy
Verisimilitude
10. 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
Aporia
Enjambment
Meter
11. 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
Picaresque
Tetralogy
Enjambment
The Renaissance
12. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
John Milton
Free indirect discourse
Serialized Novels
Ideology
13. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Simile
Rhyme scheme
Trace
New Criticism
14. 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
Rhyme scheme
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Epic
15. 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.
Beowulf
Cycle
Syllepsis
roman a clef
16. Letters - usually formal
Metaphysical poetry
Epistles
Samuel Johnson
First Folio
17. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Harangue
Irony
roman a clef
Vignette
18. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Prosody
Alliteration
Bidungsroman
Chivalry
19. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Chivalry
Charles Dickens
Aestheticism
Epode
20. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Epic
Epode
Romantic Period
Enjambment
21. 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
Dramatic Irony
heroic couple
Epithalamium
Gothic novels
22. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Alliteration
Ideology
Aporia
Sensation
23. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Trace
Anadiplosis
Canon
Personification
24. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
William Wordsworth
Sensation
Vignette
Simile
25. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Metaphor
Foreshadow
Imagery
blank verse
26. 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
William Wordsworth
Sublime
Romantic Period
New Criticism
27. 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
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alliteration
Bidungsroman
Vignette
28. (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
Simile
Iambic pentameter
Aubade
The Renaissance
29. 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
Personification
Villanelle
Assonance
William Wordsworth
30. 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.
Panegyric
Anadiplosis
Iambic pentameter
Dramatic Monologue
31. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
New Criticism
Picaresque
blank verse
Eclogues
32. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Aporia
Eclogues
Villanelle
Panegyric
33. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Abstraction
Essay
Beowulf
Imagery
34. 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.
roman a clef
Aestheticism
Assonance
Epode
35. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Alliteration
Satire
Epic Simile
36. 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.
Free indirect discourse
Alliteration
Verisimilitude
Free verse
37. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Abstraction
Anadiplosis
Epistolary novel
Hyperbole
38. 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.
Epic Simile
Medieval Period
Strophe
Serialized Novels
39. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Eclogues
Vignette
Gothic novels
Epic Simile
40. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Rhyme scheme
Sensation
Chivalry
Picaresque
41. 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.)
Epithalamium
terza rima
Epistles
Sensation
42. Augustan Period
Christopher Marlowe
Tetralogy
Samuel Johnson
Serialized Novels
43. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Chivalry
Syllepsis
Villanelle
Allegory
44. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Irony
Epithalamium
John Milton
Christopher Marlowe
45. 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
Stanza
Stream-of-consciousness
New Criticism
Neo-Platonism
46. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Imagery
Victorian Period
Elegy
Canon
47. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Foreshadow
Villanelle
Ode
Aubade
48. 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'
Villanelle
Connotation
Anadiplosis
roman a clef
49. 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.
Satire
Chivalry
Beowulf
Aestheticism
50. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Assonance
blank verse
Theater of the absurd
Meter