Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






2. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






3. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing






4. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus






5. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






6. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold






7. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.






8. Letters - usually formal






9. 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.






10. 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'






11. A group of four works






12. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






13. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work






14. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






15. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word






16. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality






17. Romantic period;






18. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






19. 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.






20. 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)






21. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.






22. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text






23. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.






24. 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






25. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






26. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House






27. (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






28. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died






29. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece






30. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues






31. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.






32. 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'






33. 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'






34. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile






35. 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






36. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.






37. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration






38. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance






39. 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






40. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






41. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.






42. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






43. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.






44. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night






45. 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






46. To put or publish. Published novel






47. 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






48. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






49. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.






50. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds