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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Charles Dickens
Victorian Period
Epistolary novel
Beowulf
2. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
Imagery
Connotation
Ode
3. 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.
Aporia
Aubade
Chivalry
Iambic pentameter
4. 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
Epithalamium
Epode
First Folio
Stream-of-consciousness
5. The rhythmic structure of poetry
heroic couple
Meter
Trace
Aubade
6. 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)
Abstraction
Romantic Period
Daniel Defoe
Simile
7. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Connotation
Enjambment
First Folio
Allegory
8. One of the three sections of the Greek dramatic chorus and the Pindaric ode - along with the antistrophe and epode. These forms may be repeated in sequence within a single ode.
Mystery plays
Free indirect discourse
Strophe
Alliteration
9. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Allegory
Christopher Marlowe
Ode
Theater of the absurd
10. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Canon
Verisimilitude
Imagery
Epic Simile
11. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Alexander Pope
Neo-Platonism
Panegyric
Trace
12. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Aporia
Trace
Medieval Period
Rhyme scheme
13. Letters - usually formal
Canon
Dramatic Irony
Prosody
Epistles
14. Augustan Period
Samuel Johnson
Foreshadow
Chivalry
Alliteration
15. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Tetralogy
Dramatic Monologue
Bidungsroman
16. 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
Epode
Stream-of-consciousness
Beowulf
17. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Meter
Wilfred Owen
Simile
Elegy
18. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Epistles
Wilfred Owen
Anacoluthon
19. 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'
Simile
Picaresque
Chivalry
Anadiplosis
20. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chivalry
Foreshadow
Wilfred Owen
21. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Alliteration
Personification
Strophe
Charles Dickens
22. 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.
Panegyric
Enjambment
terza rima
Sublime
23. 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.
Iambic pentameter
Aubade
Free verse
Harangue
24. (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
roman a clef
Epistles
The Renaissance
Trace
25. 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
John Milton
Daniel Defoe
Medieval Period
26. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
Alexander Pope
Foreshadow
Aubade
27. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
heroic couple
Free indirect discourse
blank verse
John Milton
28. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Aporia
Verisimilitude
Condition of England novel
Rhyming Couplet
29. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Irony
Trace
Romantic Period
Picaresque
30. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Sensation
Canon
Metaphor
Enjambment
31. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Mystery plays
Wilfred Owen
Medieval Period
Enjambment
32. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Alexander Pope
Victorian Period
Wilfred Owen
Assonance
33. 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'
Tetralogy
Irony
Marginalization
Trace
34. A group of four works
Eclogues
Epistles
Tetralogy
Villanelle
35. 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
Verisimilitude
Eclogues
Abstraction
Dramatic Irony
36. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Allegory
Aporia
Mystery plays
Augustan Period
37. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
heroic couple
Aubade
Alliteration
38. 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
Mystification
Medieval Period
Dramatic Irony
Hyperbole
39. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Canon
Christopher Marlowe
William Wordsworth
Anadiplosis
40. 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
Rhyming Couplet
Epic Simile
William Shakespeare
Epic
41. A collection of works on a common theme such as Charlemagne or the Trojan War. Cycles typically represent the work of several different authors brought together into a group. Cycles are often groups of romance narrative.
Enjambment
Anacoluthon
Cycle
Vignette
42. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Enjambment
Vignette
Romantic Period
Mystification
43. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
New Criticism
William Shakespeare
Antistrophe
Eclogues
44. 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
Allegory
heroic couple
Epistles
Aporia
45. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Victorian Period
Christopher Marlowe
Augustan Period
Sensation
46. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
heroic couple
Assonance
Neo-Platonism
Free verse
47. 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'
Trace
Anacoluthon
heroic couple
Epithalamium
48. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Epic Simile
The Renaissance
Prosody
Mystery plays
49. (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
Augustan Period
Hyperbole
Assonance
Epithalamium
50. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Irony
Mystery plays
Tone
Verisimilitude