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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Antistrophe
Prosody
Romantic Period
Medieval Period
2. 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
Tone
Soliloquy
Aporia
Bidungsroman
3. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Epistolary novel
Epithalamium
Gothic novels
William Shakespeare
4. The most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat (see blank verse). These lines in iambic pentameter are from The Merchant of Venice - by William Shakespeare:In sooth -/I know/not
Iambic pentameter
Verisimilitude
Soliloquy
Epistles
5. To put or publish. Published novel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Irony
Serialized Novels
Victorian Period
6. 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'
Fashionable novel
Anacoluthon
Charles Dickens
Verisimilitude
7. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Free verse
Iambic pentameter
Fashionable novel
8. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Canon
Stanza
Meter
Romantic Period
9. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Serialized Novels
Assonance
Harangue
Dramatic Irony
10. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Antistrophe
Strophe
Harangue
Aporia
11. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
Metaphor
Allegory
Anacoluthon
12. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Medieval Period
terza rima
Theater of the absurd
John Milton
13. 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.
Rhyme scheme
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epic
Dramatic Monologue
14. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Aporia
Metaphor
Essay
15. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Epistles
Assonance
Trace
Serialized Novels
16. 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.
Bidungsroman
Ode
Metaphor
Stanza
17. Augustan Period;
Bidungsroman
First Folio
Alexander Pope
Villanelle
18. 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.
Rhyming Couplet
Augustan Period
Sublime
Connotation
19. 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.
Dramatic Monologue
Epistolary Novels
Strophe
Stream-of-consciousness
20. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Epistolary novel
Vignette
blank verse
Cycle
21. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Metaphor
Epistolary Novels
Sensation
22. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Sensation
Aubade
Epic
Stanza
23. 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
New Criticism
Tone
Connotation
John Milton
24. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Enjambment
Hyperbole
Abstraction
Foreshadow
25. Romantic period;
Meter
William Wordsworth
Vignette
Aporia
26. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Charles Dickens
Simile
Personification
Ode
27. Romantic Period
Dramatic Irony
Epistles
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Syllepsis
28. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Harangue
Verisimilitude
Syllepsis
First Folio
29. 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
Stanza
Alexander Pope
Enjambment
30. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Free indirect discourse
Enjambment
Stream-of-consciousness
Mystification
31. Augustan Period
Picaresque
Stream-of-consciousness
Epode
Samuel Johnson
32. 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
Epic
Harangue
Romantic Period
Fashionable novel
33. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
heroic couple
Neo-Platonism
Syllepsis
William Wordsworth
34. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Ideology
Stanza
Epic
Rhyme scheme
35. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Assonance
Metaphor
Chiasmus
John Milton
36. 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
Neo-Platonism
Anacoluthon
New Criticism
Ideology
37. A group of four works
Tetralogy
Fashionable novel
Bidungsroman
Sublime
38. 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.
Anadiplosis
Vignette
Epode
Bidungsroman
39. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Syllepsis
Daniel Defoe
Soliloquy
William Wordsworth
40. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epithalamium
Epode
Anadiplosis
Samuel Johnson
41. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Jane Austen
Alexander Pope
Mystification
Rhyme scheme
42. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Christopher Marlowe
blank verse
Allegory
Alliteration
43. (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
Aestheticism
Daniel Defoe
The Renaissance
Hyperbole
44. 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
The Renaissance
Hyperbole
Imagery
Stream-of-consciousness
45. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
roman a clef
Trace
Jane Austen
Picaresque
46. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystification
Bidungsroman
Rhyming Couplet
Beowulf
47. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Connotation
Simile
Alliteration
Harangue
48. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
roman a clef
Villanelle
Beowulf
Victorian Period
49. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Neo-Platonism
Epode
Rhyme scheme
Free indirect discourse
50. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
Augustan Period
Panegyric
William Shakespeare