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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
blank verse
Irony
2. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Strophe
Simile
Syllepsis
Stanza
3. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Soliloquy
Ode
Anadiplosis
Daniel Defoe
4. 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
Samuel Johnson
Picaresque
Villanelle
Dramatic Monologue
5. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Epode
Syllepsis
Anadiplosis
Romantic Period
6. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Allegory
Verisimilitude
First Folio
Anadiplosis
7. 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
Beowulf
Marginalization
Stream-of-consciousness
William Wordsworth
8. A lyric from stemming from the Middle Ages that treats the subject of two lovers waking up together. It may deal with the joy of being together or with the sorrow of having to part.
Mystification
Canon
Aubade
Essay
9. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Serialized Novels
Anadiplosis
Stanza
Mystification
10. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Victorian Period
Syllepsis
Connotation
Epic
11. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Aestheticism
Condition of England novel
Anacoluthon
Neo-Platonism
12. 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.
Dramatic Irony
Daniel Defoe
Epic
Strophe
13. (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
Vignette
Picaresque
Augustan Period
14. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
Neo-Platonism
Sensation
Iambic pentameter
15. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Epistles
Canon
Serialized Novels
Sensation
16. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Neo-Platonism
Beowulf
Mystery plays
Chivalry
17. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Rhyme scheme
Condition of England novel
Antistrophe
blank verse
18. 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
Canon
Eclogues
heroic couple
Alliteration
19. 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
Anadiplosis
Dramatic Irony
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gothic novels
20. 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.
Sublime
Syllepsis
Essay
Charles Dickens
21. 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.
Assonance
William Wordsworth
Dramatic Monologue
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
22. 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.
Epode
Metaphor
Aubade
Strophe
23. Augustan Period;
Assonance
Alexander Pope
Personification
Ode
24. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Sensation
Strophe
Beowulf
Verisimilitude
25. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Sensation
Dramatic Irony
roman a clef
Epic
26. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Allegory
Imagery
Chiasmus
Epic Simile
27. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Epistles
Trace
Hyperbole
Sensation
28. 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'
Chiasmus
Neo-Platonism
Irony
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
29. 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.
Sensation
Strophe
Trace
Condition of England novel
30. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Hyperbole
Sensation
Alliteration
Anadiplosis
31. 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.)
Personification
Epode
Elegy
terza rima
32. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Canon
Aestheticism
Elegy
roman a clef
33. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Personification
Harangue
Irony
Picaresque
34. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Epode
Aestheticism
Abstraction
Alexander Pope
35. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Villanelle
Aestheticism
Aporia
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 verse
Soliloquy
Ideology
Epode
37. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Epistolary novel
Dramatic Monologue
Epic Simile
William Wordsworth
38. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Allegory
Stream-of-consciousness
Neo-Platonism
Epithalamium
39. 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
Anadiplosis
Irony
Strophe
40. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Metaphysical poetry
Mystification
Anadiplosis
Panegyric
41. Letters - usually formal
Stream-of-consciousness
Personification
Epistles
Charles Dickens
42. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Samuel Johnson
Cycle
Vignette
Verisimilitude
43. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Foreshadow
Samuel Johnson
Fashionable novel
Villanelle
44. 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)
Rhyming Couplet
Fashionable novel
Panegyric
Simile
45. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Aestheticism
Picaresque
Anacoluthon
Eclogues
46. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Tone
Free verse
Antistrophe
John Milton
47. (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
Eclogues
Picaresque
Epithalamium
48. 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
Elegy
Metaphor
Free indirect discourse
49. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
Free verse
Metaphysical poetry
Sublime
50. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Christopher Marlowe
Dramatic Monologue
Epistolary Novels
Victorian Period