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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Trace
Verisimilitude
Sublime
New Criticism
2. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Vignette
Neo-Platonism
Ideology
Medieval Period
3. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Harangue
Aporia
Satire
Epic Simile
4. 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
Soliloquy
Chiasmus
Condition of England novel
5. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Stanza
heroic couple
Allegory
Tetralogy
6. Romantic Period
Aubade
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rhyme scheme
Daniel Defoe
7. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Assonance
Anacoluthon
Victorian Period
Iambic pentameter
8. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
roman a clef
Romantic Period
Anadiplosis
Fashionable novel
9. 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.
Sublime
Hyperbole
Tetralogy
Metaphor
10. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
William Wordsworth
Anadiplosis
Aporia
Syllepsis
11. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Stream-of-consciousness
Prosody
Aporia
Epistolary novel
12. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Connotation
Metaphor
Vignette
Metaphysical poetry
13. 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
Beowulf
Epic
Ideology
The Renaissance
14. Letters - usually formal
Jane Austen
Allegory
Anadiplosis
Epistles
15. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Sensation
Victorian Period
Theater of the absurd
Gothic novels
16. 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
Epode
Gothic novels
Epithalamium
terza rima
17. 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.
Marginalization
Antistrophe
Verisimilitude
Ideology
18. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
Free verse
Strophe
Ode
19. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Abstraction
Personification
roman a clef
Vignette
20. (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
Strophe
Tetralogy
Satire
21. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Ideology
Anacoluthon
John Milton
Romantic Period
22. 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.
Metaphor
Aestheticism
William Wordsworth
Villanelle
23. 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
Rhyming Couplet
Epithalamium
Beowulf
Fashionable novel
24. 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.)
Iambic pentameter
Tetralogy
terza rima
Chiasmus
25. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
heroic couple
Enjambment
Dramatic Irony
Ode
26. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Tone
blank verse
Aporia
Free verse
27. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Villanelle
Condition of England novel
Beowulf
Imagery
28. 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.
Epode
Cycle
Ideology
Aporia
29. 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)
Simile
Mystery plays
Dramatic Irony
Prosody
30. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Alliteration
Chiasmus
Epistles
Medieval Period
31. Augustan Period;
Epistolary Novels
The Renaissance
Free verse
Alexander Pope
32. Augustan Period
Villanelle
Picaresque
Elegy
Samuel Johnson
33. 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
Allegory
roman a clef
Simile
34. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Charles Dickens
Sensation
New Criticism
Verisimilitude
35. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Essay
Free verse
Ideology
Aestheticism
36. 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
Anadiplosis
Prosody
Rhyming Couplet
Hyperbole
37. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Dramatic Monologue
Free verse
Epic
38. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Rhyming Couplet
Antistrophe
Tone
William Shakespeare
39. 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'
Irony
Aubade
Epithalamium
Assonance
40. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
Free indirect discourse
Cycle
Assonance
41. A group of four works
New Criticism
Trace
Tetralogy
Verisimilitude
42. 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
Villanelle
Serialized Novels
Antistrophe
New Criticism
43. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Trace
Fashionable novel
Stanza
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
44. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Enjambment
Hyperbole
Christopher Marlowe
Meter
45. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Neo-Platonism
Tone
Satire
Vignette
46. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Antistrophe
Victorian Period
Charles Dickens
47. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Connotation
Epic
Mystery plays
Theater of the absurd
48. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Romantic Period
Stream-of-consciousness
Verisimilitude
Daniel Defoe
49. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Elegy
Condition of England novel
Personification
Serialized Novels
50. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
terza rima
Christopher Marlowe
Mystery plays
Essay