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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Anadiplosis
Satire
Fashionable novel
Trace
2. 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
Enjambment
Hyperbole
Ideology
Irony
3. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Verisimilitude
Syllepsis
Picaresque
Allegory
4. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Verisimilitude
Wilfred Owen
Medieval Period
Cycle
5. 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
Allegory
Assonance
Beowulf
Epithalamium
6. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Epistolary novel
Epic Simile
Mystification
Metaphysical poetry
7. 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.
Dramatic Monologue
Fashionable novel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Connotation
8. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Irony
Sensation
Canon
Aporia
9. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Strophe
Chiasmus
Epode
10. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Victorian Period
Theater of the absurd
Picaresque
Free indirect discourse
11. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Connotation
Augustan Period
Vignette
Abstraction
12. 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.
heroic couple
Tone
Gothic novels
Free verse
13. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Villanelle
Essay
Aestheticism
14. 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
Condition of England novel
Personification
Prosody
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
Epistles
Daniel Defoe
The Renaissance
Samuel Johnson
16. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Epode
Panegyric
Victorian Period
Aporia
17. 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.
Harangue
Allegory
Wilfred Owen
Metaphor
18. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Gothic novels
Irony
Satire
19. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Neo-Platonism
First Folio
Elegy
Metaphysical poetry
20. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Dramatic Irony
Iambic pentameter
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ode
21. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Metaphysical poetry
Epic
Samuel Johnson
Marginalization
22. 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.
John Milton
Alliteration
The Renaissance
Cycle
23. Romantic Period
Anacoluthon
Condition of England novel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Foreshadow
24. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
William Shakespeare
Iambic pentameter
Allegory
Mystery plays
25. 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'
Tone
Iambic pentameter
Abstraction
Irony
26. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Victorian Period
Imagery
Beowulf
Theater of the absurd
27. 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
Stanza
New Criticism
Rhyme scheme
Vignette
28. 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
Abstraction
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gothic novels
Epistles
29. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Satire
Sublime
Antistrophe
Romantic Period
30. 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
Theater of the absurd
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
heroic couple
Abstraction
31. 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
Wilfred Owen
Assonance
Aestheticism
32. A group of four works
Tetralogy
Mystery plays
Epode
The Renaissance
33. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Verisimilitude
Iambic pentameter
Canon
Chivalry
34. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Allegory
Eclogues
Rhyming Couplet
Irony
35. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Meter
Metaphysical poetry
Abstraction
Chiasmus
36. 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
Panegyric
Soliloquy
Mystery plays
37. 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.
Theater of the absurd
Aubade
Epic
Irony
38. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Tetralogy
Victorian Period
Imagery
roman a clef
39. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Assonance
Wilfred Owen
Vignette
Satire
40. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Romantic Period
Epic
Ode
Medieval Period
41. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
blank verse
Iambic pentameter
Personification
Harangue
42. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Essay
Free indirect discourse
Condition of England novel
Strophe
43. Romantic period;
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
Harangue
William Wordsworth
44. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Epistles
Serialized Novels
Neo-Platonism
Syllepsis
45. (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
Eclogues
Samuel Johnson
Harangue
Augustan Period
46. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Alliteration
Vignette
Foreshadow
Neo-Platonism
47. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Medieval Period
Chiasmus
blank verse
Picaresque
48. 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
Charles Dickens
Stream-of-consciousness
Assonance
Epithalamium
49. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
Rhyming Couplet
Chiasmus
Charles Dickens
50. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Chiasmus
Alliteration
Daniel Defoe
Connotation