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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Epode
Sensation
First Folio
heroic couple
2. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Tone
Condition of England novel
Free verse
Connotation
3. A group of four works
Eclogues
Antistrophe
Iambic pentameter
Tetralogy
4. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Enjambment
Personification
Jane Austen
Syllepsis
5. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Imagery
New Criticism
Tone
Abstraction
6. 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.
Allegory
William Wordsworth
Metaphor
New Criticism
7. 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
Condition of England novel
Essay
Epode
8. 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.
Metaphor
Epic
Villanelle
Free verse
9. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Hyperbole
Tetralogy
Panegyric
Enjambment
10. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
Free indirect discourse
Irony
Wilfred Owen
11. Letters - usually formal
Picaresque
Neo-Platonism
Epistles
Bidungsroman
12. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Meter
Prosody
Free verse
The Renaissance
13. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Trace
Epistolary Novels
Theater of the absurd
Fashionable novel
14. 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
Strophe
heroic couple
Mystification
Stanza
15. 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.
Epithalamium
Epic
Epistles
Metaphysical poetry
16. 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
Anadiplosis
Soliloquy
Mystification
Beowulf
17. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Free indirect discourse
Stanza
Verisimilitude
John Milton
18. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Anacoluthon
Villanelle
Canon
Medieval Period
19. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Prosody
Mystification
Metaphor
Elegy
20. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Condition of England novel
Samuel Johnson
Enjambment
Satire
21. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Aestheticism
Allegory
Epistles
Marginalization
22. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Epistolary Novels
Anadiplosis
Soliloquy
Panegyric
23. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Syllepsis
Mystification
blank verse
Cycle
24. 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'
New Criticism
Soliloquy
Anacoluthon
Augustan Period
25. 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)
Gothic novels
New Criticism
Simile
Allegory
26. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
Connotation
Satire
Beowulf
27. 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
Wilfred Owen
New Criticism
Stanza
28. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Panegyric
Tetralogy
Chiasmus
Trace
29. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Panegyric
Samuel Johnson
Stanza
Anacoluthon
30. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Aestheticism
Verisimilitude
Personification
Romantic Period
31. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Epic Simile
Hyperbole
Stanza
Epithalamium
32. 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.
Eclogues
Sublime
Picaresque
Aubade
33. (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
Ode
Chivalry
Prosody
34. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Picaresque
Elegy
Serialized Novels
Medieval Period
35. 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.
Simile
Anacoluthon
Strophe
Charles Dickens
36. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
blank verse
Essay
Picaresque
Aporia
37. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Harangue
Christopher Marlowe
Charles Dickens
Sublime
38. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Ode
Charles Dickens
Foreshadow
39. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
New Criticism
Epistolary Novels
Neo-Platonism
Eclogues
40. Romantic Period
Stream-of-consciousness
Irony
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epic
41. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Medieval Period
Elegy
Canon
42. 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.
roman a clef
Connotation
Rhyming Couplet
Aubade
43. Is the idealized code of medieval nobility. It stressed honesty and integrity in living up to one's social obligations - courtesy to others - and deference to ladies.
Aporia
Mystification
Chivalry
Epistolary novel
44. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Aestheticism
Iambic pentameter
Imagery
45. Augustan Period;
Soliloquy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alexander Pope
Beowulf
46. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
roman a clef
Metaphysical poetry
Enjambment
William Shakespeare
47. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Trace
Anacoluthon
Charles Dickens
Rhyming Couplet
48. 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
Abstraction
Sensation
Dramatic Irony
Bidungsroman
49. 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
Foreshadow
William Wordsworth
Sublime
New Criticism
50. 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.)
Daniel Defoe
terza rima
Syllepsis
Rhyming Couplet
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