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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
John Milton
Free indirect discourse
Connotation
Villanelle
2. 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.
Ode
Metaphor
Vignette
Rhyming Couplet
3. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Dramatic Monologue
Jane Austen
Imagery
Aestheticism
4. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Elegy
Hyperbole
Enjambment
Aporia
5. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Medieval Period
Strophe
Ode
Syllepsis
6. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Anadiplosis
Antistrophe
Ode
Prosody
7. 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
Fashionable novel
Foreshadow
Epic
Chiasmus
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
Mystification
Epic
Villanelle
Picaresque
9. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Harangue
Irony
Chiasmus
Personification
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'
Panegyric
Irony
blank verse
Christopher Marlowe
11. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Hyperbole
Vignette
Victorian Period
Soliloquy
12. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Alliteration
Metaphysical poetry
Sublime
Aporia
13. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
heroic couple
Romantic Period
Epithalamium
Ideology
14. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Harangue
Aubade
Allegory
heroic couple
15. Augustan Period;
blank verse
Foreshadow
Metaphysical poetry
Alexander Pope
16. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Panegyric
Stanza
Theater of the absurd
Augustan Period
17. Augustan Period
Epistolary Novels
Samuel Johnson
Picaresque
terza rima
18. Letters - usually formal
terza rima
Epode
Romantic Period
Epistles
19. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
Assonance
Foreshadow
Mystery plays
20. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Prosody
Charles Dickens
Romantic Period
Simile
21. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
First Folio
Connotation
Stanza
Epode
22. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
blank verse
Connotation
Panegyric
Theater of the absurd
23. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Free indirect discourse
Villanelle
Assonance
Rhyming Couplet
24. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Marginalization
Augustan Period
The Renaissance
Antistrophe
25. 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
Beowulf
John Milton
Personification
Panegyric
26. 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'
Anadiplosis
Aporia
Epode
terza rima
27. 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
Dramatic Irony
Strophe
New Criticism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.)
Theater of the absurd
Soliloquy
terza rima
New Criticism
29. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Aporia
Harangue
New Criticism
Epode
30. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Condition of England novel
Verisimilitude
Rhyme scheme
Epode
31. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Augustan Period
William Wordsworth
Satire
Tetralogy
32. 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.
blank verse
Epic
Chivalry
Eclogues
33. 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.
Chivalry
Strophe
Aubade
Free indirect discourse
34. 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
Gothic novels
Essay
heroic couple
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
35. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Augustan Period
Picaresque
Personification
Metaphysical poetry
36. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
roman a clef
Prosody
Foreshadow
37. 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.
Syllepsis
Epode
Panegyric
Enjambment
38. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Alexander Pope
Imagery
Daniel Defoe
Samuel Johnson
39. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Romantic Period
John Milton
Syllepsis
Soliloquy
40. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Neo-Platonism
Villanelle
Chiasmus
New Criticism
41. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Harangue
Alliteration
Ode
roman a clef
42. 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.
Panegyric
Epic Simile
Antistrophe
Ideology
43. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
terza rima
Christopher Marlowe
Stanza
Sensation
44. Romantic period;
Aestheticism
Essay
William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth
45. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Tetralogy
Harangue
Panegyric
46. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Alliteration
Vignette
Samuel Johnson
Elegy
47. To put or publish. Published novel
Theater of the absurd
Hyperbole
Ode
Serialized Novels
48. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Personification
Tone
Bidungsroman
Epistolary novel
49. A group of four works
Anadiplosis
Tone
Tetralogy
New Criticism
50. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Sensation
Strophe
John Milton
Epic Simile