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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Abstraction
Essay
Condition of England novel
2. (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
Strophe
terza rima
Epic Simile
Augustan Period
3. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Aporia
Aestheticism
Simile
Metaphysical poetry
4. 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.)
Syllepsis
terza rima
Epic
Picaresque
5. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Free indirect discourse
Metaphor
First Folio
Dramatic Irony
6. 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'
Aporia
Ideology
Prosody
Anadiplosis
7. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Sensation
Canon
Foreshadow
Neo-Platonism
8. 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
Medieval Period
Foreshadow
Chiasmus
9. 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
Hyperbole
Syllepsis
Free verse
Stream-of-consciousness
10. Letters - usually formal
Serialized Novels
Mystification
Epistles
Tone
11. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Rhyme scheme
Tetralogy
Alexander Pope
Wilfred Owen
12. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Panegyric
Victorian Period
Beowulf
Tetralogy
13. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
heroic couple
Free verse
Iambic pentameter
Epithalamium
14. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Samuel Johnson
Connotation
William Wordsworth
Rhyme scheme
15. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystification
Iambic pentameter
Rhyming Couplet
Hyperbole
16. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Mystery plays
Romantic Period
Christopher Marlowe
Metaphysical poetry
17. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Enjambment
Cycle
William Wordsworth
Foreshadow
18. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Epithalamium
Assonance
Marginalization
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
19. 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
The Renaissance
Serialized Novels
Syllepsis
20. 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
Strophe
Ideology
Villanelle
Daniel Defoe
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
Marginalization
Theater of the absurd
Rhyming Couplet
Irony
22. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Meter
Aporia
Marginalization
Serialized Novels
23. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Epistles
Picaresque
Christopher Marlowe
Jane Austen
24. Romantic period;
Elegy
Alexander Pope
William Wordsworth
Eclogues
25. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Fashionable novel
Alliteration
Chiasmus
Epistolary Novels
26. 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
Wilfred Owen
Epic
Tone
Bidungsroman
27. (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
Dramatic Monologue
Elegy
Victorian Period
28. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Essay
Metaphysical poetry
Harangue
Condition of England novel
29. 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
Picaresque
Stanza
Epistolary novel
Fashionable novel
30. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Hyperbole
Personification
Rhyme scheme
31. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Metaphysical poetry
Epistolary novel
Iambic pentameter
Rhyming Couplet
32. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Marginalization
Epic
Christopher Marlowe
Allegory
33. To put or publish. Published novel
Serialized Novels
Gothic novels
Chiasmus
Rhyme scheme
34. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Foreshadow
Soliloquy
Victorian Period
Medieval Period
35. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Epic
Prosody
Sensation
36. 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
Cycle
Epic
Abstraction
Connotation
37. 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
Daniel Defoe
Free verse
Dramatic Irony
Canon
38. (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
Trace
The Renaissance
Irony
Picaresque
39. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Allegory
Medieval Period
Cycle
Vignette
40. 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
Rhyming Couplet
heroic couple
Strophe
Epode
41. 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
First Folio
Epistles
Wilfred Owen
42. 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
New Criticism
Vignette
Canon
43. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Picaresque
Christopher Marlowe
Trace
44. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Harangue
Imagery
Condition of England novel
Epode
45. Augustan Period
Syllepsis
Epode
Condition of England novel
Samuel Johnson
46. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Epode
Stream-of-consciousness
Victorian Period
Fashionable novel
47. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Soliloquy
Strophe
Chivalry
Jane Austen
48. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Canon
Assonance
Mystery plays
Elegy
49. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Metaphor
Gothic novels
Cycle
Marginalization
50. 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.
Metaphysical poetry
blank verse
Epic Simile
Strophe