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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Elegy
Irony
The Renaissance
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2. 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.
Daniel Defoe
Anacoluthon
Aubade
New Criticism
3. 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
Syllepsis
Metaphor
John Milton
Ideology
4. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Imagery
Chiasmus
Sensation
Antistrophe
5. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Theater of the absurd
The Renaissance
Eclogues
Neo-Platonism
6. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Bidungsroman
Harangue
Strophe
Verisimilitude
7. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Marginalization
Stanza
Chiasmus
Trace
8. Romantic Period
Metaphor
Beowulf
Rhyme scheme
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Charles Dickens
Anacoluthon
Rhyme scheme
Metaphor
10. (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
Epode
Verisimilitude
Free indirect discourse
11. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Free indirect discourse
Medieval Period
Iambic pentameter
Verisimilitude
12. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Romantic Period
Epic
Imagery
Marginalization
13. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Chiasmus
Epode
Epithalamium
Canon
14. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
Imagery
Antistrophe
heroic couple
15. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Charles Dickens
Aubade
Aporia
Anadiplosis
16. Augustan Period;
roman a clef
Victorian Period
Enjambment
Alexander Pope
17. (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
Neo-Platonism
Augustan Period
Ode
terza rima
18. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Connotation
blank verse
Metaphor
New Criticism
19. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epithalamium
Romantic Period
John Milton
Mystery plays
20. 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'
Anacoluthon
First Folio
Satire
Christopher Marlowe
21. A group of four works
Free indirect discourse
Tetralogy
Theater of the absurd
Irony
22. 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
Free indirect discourse
Dramatic Irony
Satire
23. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Ideology
Fashionable novel
Foreshadow
Satire
24. Romantic period;
Christopher Marlowe
Sensation
William Wordsworth
Epic
25. 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
Rhyming Couplet
Soliloquy
Bidungsroman
26. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Harangue
Ideology
Stanza
roman a clef
27. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Villanelle
Iambic pentameter
William Shakespeare
28. 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.)
Free indirect discourse
Dramatic Monologue
Epode
terza rima
29. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
roman a clef
Assonance
Soliloquy
William Wordsworth
30. 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.
Metaphor
Epic
Irony
Alexander Pope
31. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Trace
Prosody
Mystery plays
Satire
32. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Alexander Pope
Eclogues
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Condition of England novel
33. 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
Assonance
Bidungsroman
Canon
Mystery plays
34. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Syllepsis
William Shakespeare
Theater of the absurd
Allegory
35. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Epic
Beowulf
Strophe
Alliteration
36. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Epistolary Novels
Vignette
Villanelle
Marginalization
37. Augustan Period
Sublime
Samuel Johnson
Stream-of-consciousness
Assonance
38. 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.
Sensation
Free verse
Metaphor
Irony
39. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
roman a clef
Trace
Meter
The Renaissance
40. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
Canon
John Milton
Satire
41. 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
Metaphor
Epic
Epistolary novel
Soliloquy
42. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Canon
Condition of England novel
Antistrophe
Simile
43. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Dramatic Irony
Wilfred Owen
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
44. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Wilfred Owen
Bidungsroman
Panegyric
45. 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.
Mystification
Aporia
Trace
Antistrophe
46. 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
Epistolary Novels
Romantic Period
heroic couple
Christopher Marlowe
47. 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.
Strophe
Epode
William Shakespeare
John Milton
48. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Antistrophe
Romantic Period
Free indirect discourse
Stanza
49. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Picaresque
Foreshadow
Epistolary novel
Connotation
50. 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
Mystery plays
Prosody
Beowulf
Stream-of-consciousness