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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Augustan Period
Condition of England novel
Hyperbole
2. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Verisimilitude
William Wordsworth
Mystification
Serialized Novels
3. Augustan Period;
Tone
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
blank verse
Alexander Pope
4. 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
Assonance
Victorian Period
Hyperbole
5. 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.)
Aporia
terza rima
Neo-Platonism
Free verse
6. A group of four works
Strophe
Tetralogy
Alliteration
Wilfred Owen
7. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Metaphysical poetry
Abstraction
First Folio
Personification
8. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
heroic couple
Epic Simile
Free verse
blank verse
9. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Dramatic Monologue
Epithalamium
Prosody
Romantic Period
10. 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
Aporia
blank verse
Ode
11. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Samuel Johnson
Trace
Medieval Period
Epic
12. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
roman a clef
Fashionable novel
heroic couple
Free verse
13. 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
Bidungsroman
Verisimilitude
Simile
Stream-of-consciousness
14. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Sublime
Metaphysical poetry
Satire
Alliteration
15. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Gothic novels
Victorian Period
Wilfred Owen
John Milton
16. To put or publish. Published novel
Serialized Novels
Panegyric
Fashionable novel
Sublime
17. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Aporia
Epic
Personification
Sensation
18. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Augustan Period
Jane Austen
Mystification
19. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Harangue
Free verse
Villanelle
Jane Austen
20. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Beowulf
Cycle
Augustan Period
21. 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
Wilfred Owen
Rhyming Couplet
The Renaissance
Imagery
22. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Dramatic Irony
Abstraction
Ode
Ideology
23. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Neo-Platonism
Dramatic Irony
Jane Austen
The Renaissance
24. 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
Villanelle
Epode
Trace
Satire
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'
Eclogues
Harangue
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Irony
26. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Fashionable novel
William Wordsworth
Alliteration
Free verse
27. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Daniel Defoe
Christopher Marlowe
Samuel Johnson
Bidungsroman
28. 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
Augustan Period
heroic couple
Iambic pentameter
Theater of the absurd
29. 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
Sensation
Harangue
Personification
Hyperbole
30. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
heroic couple
Mystification
Picaresque
31. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
Mystification
Essay
Harangue
32. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Alliteration
Epistolary novel
Antistrophe
33. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Chivalry
Assonance
Victorian Period
Cycle
34. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Aubade
Epic Simile
Neo-Platonism
Theater of the absurd
35. 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
New Criticism
Ideology
Stream-of-consciousness
William Shakespeare
36. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Mystification
Anacoluthon
Picaresque
Elegy
37. 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
Bidungsroman
Verisimilitude
Hyperbole
38. 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
Ideology
Rhyme scheme
Samuel Johnson
39. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Rhyme scheme
Marginalization
Enjambment
Aporia
40. Augustan Period
Stream-of-consciousness
Samuel Johnson
Metaphysical poetry
Iambic pentameter
41. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Vignette
Personification
Metaphor
heroic couple
42. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Epistolary Novels
Essay
Dramatic Monologue
43. 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
Vignette
Charles Dickens
Epic Simile
heroic couple
44. 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.
Allegory
Sublime
William Shakespeare
Chivalry
45. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Ideology
Dramatic Irony
Gothic novels
Prosody
46. (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
Abstraction
Augustan Period
Enjambment
Imagery
47. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Epistles
roman a clef
Imagery
New Criticism
48. 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'
William Shakespeare
Anacoluthon
terza rima
Irony
49. 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.
Strophe
Antistrophe
Neo-Platonism
Stream-of-consciousness
50. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Wilfred Owen
Epic Simile
heroic couple
Anadiplosis