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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Trace
Chivalry
Wilfred Owen
William Shakespeare
2. 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
Wilfred Owen
Rhyme scheme
Dramatic Irony
heroic couple
3. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Metaphysical poetry
Epic Simile
Iambic pentameter
Dramatic Monologue
4. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Canon
Condition of England novel
Dramatic Monologue
William Wordsworth
5. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Neo-Platonism
Ideology
Vignette
Epic Simile
6. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Epic Simile
Ideology
Stanza
Free verse
7. 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
Soliloquy
Trace
Essay
Gothic novels
8. 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
Ideology
Jane Austen
Allegory
Alliteration
9. 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
Elegy
Beowulf
Tone
Picaresque
10. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Bidungsroman
Allegory
Epistolary Novels
Samuel Johnson
11. 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
Sublime
Alliteration
Epistolary novel
12. 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.
Epode
Meter
Chivalry
blank verse
13. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Assonance
Epistolary Novels
Ode
Mystery plays
14. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Wilfred Owen
Satire
William Wordsworth
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.
Cycle
Rhyme scheme
Victorian Period
Metaphysical poetry
16. 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.
Rhyming Couplet
terza rima
Dramatic Monologue
Anacoluthon
17. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Anacoluthon
Dramatic Monologue
Metaphysical poetry
Tetralogy
18. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Meter
Essay
blank verse
Wilfred Owen
19. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Abstraction
Epic
Verisimilitude
Wilfred Owen
20. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Aubade
Antistrophe
Imagery
Hyperbole
21. 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'
Victorian Period
Metaphysical poetry
Anadiplosis
Tetralogy
22. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Jane Austen
Tone
Connotation
heroic couple
23. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Victorian Period
Ode
Elegy
Enjambment
24. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
heroic couple
Metaphysical poetry
Beowulf
25. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Epic Simile
terza rima
Fashionable novel
Christopher Marlowe
26. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Tetralogy
Simile
Fashionable novel
Stanza
27. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Assonance
Vignette
Harangue
Epic Simile
28. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Free verse
Epode
Mystery plays
Antistrophe
29. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Gothic novels
Syllepsis
Ideology
Christopher Marlowe
30. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Augustan Period
John Milton
Simile
Irony
31. Romantic period;
Medieval Period
Personification
William Wordsworth
Aubade
32. 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
Canon
Samuel Johnson
John Milton
Iambic pentameter
33. 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
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Epistolary novel
Meter
34. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Neo-Platonism
Free indirect discourse
Aporia
Trace
35. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Alliteration
Aestheticism
Neo-Platonism
Personification
36. 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
Stream-of-consciousness
Condition of England novel
roman a clef
Villanelle
37. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Enjambment
Eclogues
Metaphor
Simile
38. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Enjambment
Satire
The Renaissance
Epic Simile
39. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Sensation
Epic
Victorian Period
Anadiplosis
40. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Medieval Period
blank verse
Irony
Christopher Marlowe
41. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Epode
Aporia
Romantic Period
Harangue
42. 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
Aubade
Epic
Personification
43. 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.
Irony
Antistrophe
Cycle
Prosody
44. 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.
Metaphor
Sublime
Soliloquy
Neo-Platonism
45. 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
Harangue
Assonance
roman a clef
Epic
46. 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.
Satire
Free verse
Rhyme scheme
Prosody
47. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Alliteration
Charles Dickens
Personification
Epithalamium
48. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Strophe
Picaresque
Epithalamium
Connotation
49. (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
Verisimilitude
Augustan Period
Stanza
Aestheticism
50. (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
The Renaissance
Marginalization
Christopher Marlowe
Epic Simile