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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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.
New Criticism
Wilfred Owen
Metaphysical poetry
Epic
2. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Irony
Sensation
Trace
Free verse
3. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Alliteration
Condition of England novel
Verisimilitude
Elegy
4. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Aestheticism
William Shakespeare
Sublime
Mystery plays
5. 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.
Antistrophe
Verisimilitude
Epistolary Novels
Christopher Marlowe
6. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Serialized Novels
Ode
Alexander Pope
The Renaissance
7. 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'
Harangue
Epistolary novel
Aestheticism
Anacoluthon
8. A group of four works
Panegyric
Verisimilitude
Rhyming Couplet
Tetralogy
9. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Anacoluthon
Aubade
Christopher Marlowe
Neo-Platonism
10. 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)
Vignette
Neo-Platonism
Chivalry
Simile
11. 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.)
terza rima
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Neo-Platonism
The Renaissance
12. 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.
Hyperbole
Ideology
Epithalamium
Sublime
13. 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
Epode
Medieval Period
Stream-of-consciousness
Chivalry
14. 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
Simile
Alliteration
Ideology
New Criticism
15. 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
Essay
Aubade
Epic
Elegy
16. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Personification
Epithalamium
blank verse
Ode
17. 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
Rhyme scheme
Epistolary novel
Hyperbole
Condition of England novel
18. Poetry that has no fixed meter - although it has rhythmic lines and line breaks and is therefore presumably composed with rhythmic qualities in mind. It came into vogue during the modern period.
Christopher Marlowe
Free verse
Verisimilitude
Charles Dickens
19. 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
Epistles
Samuel Johnson
Augustan Period
20. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
John Milton
Sensation
Picaresque
First Folio
21. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Satire
terza rima
Wilfred Owen
Elegy
22. 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
Dramatic Irony
Stanza
terza rima
First Folio
23. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Romantic Period
Condition of England novel
Personification
Serialized Novels
24. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystification
Stanza
Stream-of-consciousness
Meter
25. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
roman a clef
Epistolary Novels
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Medieval Period
26. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
New Criticism
Vignette
Augustan Period
Medieval Period
27. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
Epic Simile
Serialized Novels
Chivalry
28. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Serialized Novels
Strophe
Chivalry
Harangue
29. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Allegory
Rhyming Couplet
Stanza
Picaresque
30. 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
Theater of the absurd
Samuel Johnson
Mystery plays
31. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
Harangue
Simile
Bidungsroman
32. (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
Marginalization
Medieval Period
Augustan Period
Rhyming Couplet
33. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Mystification
Rhyme scheme
Soliloquy
Fashionable novel
34. 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.
Epode
Dramatic Monologue
Trace
Vignette
35. 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.
Aubade
Mystification
Ode
Free indirect discourse
36. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Charles Dickens
Serialized Novels
Eclogues
Hyperbole
37. Romantic Period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Soliloquy
Panegyric
Epic Simile
38. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Anadiplosis
Beowulf
Allegory
Cycle
39. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
Syllepsis
Strophe
Christopher Marlowe
40. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Syllepsis
Metaphysical poetry
Christopher Marlowe
41. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Chivalry
Connotation
Assonance
blank verse
42. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Harangue
Prosody
Dramatic Monologue
Epistolary novel
43. 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
Theater of the absurd
Wilfred Owen
Epic Simile
44. Letters - usually formal
Hyperbole
Canon
Epistles
Samuel Johnson
45. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
terza rima
Mystification
Marginalization
Essay
46. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Epithalamium
Theater of the absurd
Elegy
Condition of England novel
47. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Personification
Mystification
Tetralogy
Enjambment
48. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Connotation
Ideology
Enjambment
Tone
49. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Satire
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Theater of the absurd
Essay
50. 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.
Dramatic Irony
Epode
Stream-of-consciousness
Samuel Johnson