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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Romantic Period
Cycle
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Johnson
Serialized Novels
2. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Antistrophe
Alliteration
Daniel Defoe
Aestheticism
3. 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.
Personification
Strophe
Villanelle
Fashionable novel
4. 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.
Fashionable novel
Epode
Villanelle
Harangue
5. 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
Wilfred Owen
Epic
Dramatic Irony
Theater of the absurd
6. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Abstraction
Medieval Period
Fashionable novel
Panegyric
7. 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'
The Renaissance
Picaresque
Epistolary Novels
Anadiplosis
8. Letters - usually formal
Elegy
Fashionable novel
Epistles
Free verse
9. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Samuel Johnson
Canon
Irony
Ode
10. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Sublime
Chivalry
Chiasmus
Connotation
11. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Meter
Sublime
Rhyming Couplet
Assonance
12. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Essay
Condition of England novel
Epistles
Daniel Defoe
13. 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
Victorian Period
Villanelle
Alliteration
John Milton
14. 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
Villanelle
Abstraction
William Wordsworth
Iambic pentameter
15. 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)
Tetralogy
Sensation
Simile
Syllepsis
16. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Meter
Abstraction
Mystification
John Milton
17. 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
Iambic pentameter
Rhyme scheme
Vignette
Beowulf
18. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Theater of the absurd
Chivalry
Assonance
Canon
19. To put or publish. Published novel
Villanelle
Serialized Novels
blank verse
Cycle
20. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
blank verse
Chiasmus
John Milton
The Renaissance
21. 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'
Eclogues
William Wordsworth
Epic Simile
Anacoluthon
22. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Alliteration
Simile
Iambic pentameter
23. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Jane Austen
Alliteration
Aporia
Stream-of-consciousness
24. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
Jane Austen
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Metaphysical poetry
25. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Metaphysical poetry
Victorian Period
Connotation
Satire
26. (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
Metaphysical poetry
The Renaissance
Free indirect discourse
Ode
27. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Chivalry
Victorian Period
Meter
Trace
28. 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.)
Daniel Defoe
heroic couple
Epic
terza rima
29. 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.
Essay
Anadiplosis
Beowulf
Dramatic Monologue
30. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Marginalization
Augustan Period
Cycle
Picaresque
31. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Victorian Period
John Milton
Imagery
Prosody
32. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Gothic novels
Epithalamium
Harangue
Stanza
33. A group of four works
Rhyme scheme
Verisimilitude
Tetralogy
Elegy
34. 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
Epistles
Connotation
Epic
Gothic novels
35. 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.
Personification
Medieval Period
Daniel Defoe
Metaphor
36. 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
Hyperbole
Dramatic Irony
Aestheticism
heroic couple
37. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Condition of England novel
Neo-Platonism
Abstraction
First Folio
38. (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
Sublime
Villanelle
Condition of England novel
39. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Hyperbole
Foreshadow
Satire
Epic
40. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
The Renaissance
Soliloquy
First Folio
Alliteration
41. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Harangue
Condition of England novel
Vignette
Epithalamium
42. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Sensation
Harangue
Connotation
Chivalry
43. 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.
Chivalry
Prosody
Jane Austen
Syllepsis
44. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
The Renaissance
Stream-of-consciousness
Tone
45. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
Aporia
Epistolary novel
Meter
46. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
William Shakespeare
Connotation
Gothic novels
Verisimilitude
47. 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.
Metaphor
Epistolary novel
Epic
Epistolary Novels
48. 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
Dramatic Monologue
Epic
Prosody
Elegy
49. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Rhyme scheme
Foreshadow
Epistolary novel
blank verse
50. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Stream-of-consciousness
Connotation
Essay
Aestheticism