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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Neo-Platonism
Bidungsroman
First Folio
2. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Epistolary novel
Alliteration
Anadiplosis
Canon
3. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
The Renaissance
Eclogues
Augustan Period
Romantic Period
4. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Strophe
First Folio
William Shakespeare
Theater of the absurd
5. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Soliloquy
Free indirect discourse
Allegory
Epic Simile
6. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Prosody
Essay
Allegory
Condition of England novel
7. 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.
Abstraction
Tone
Villanelle
Epic
8. 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
Mystery plays
Marginalization
John Milton
Dramatic Irony
9. 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
Foreshadow
Iambic pentameter
Augustan Period
10. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Antistrophe
Iambic pentameter
Assonance
Dramatic Irony
11. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
Epistolary Novels
Meter
Chivalry
12. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Villanelle
Iambic pentameter
Imagery
Epithalamium
13. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Tone
Serialized Novels
Condition of England novel
Free indirect discourse
14. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Imagery
Mystery plays
Aubade
Stanza
15. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Aubade
Medieval Period
Syllepsis
Augustan Period
16. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Wilfred Owen
Beowulf
Rhyme scheme
Assonance
17. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Anacoluthon
Alliteration
First Folio
Anadiplosis
18. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tone
Essay
Rhyming Couplet
terza rima
19. 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
Bidungsroman
Chiasmus
Rhyming Couplet
Beowulf
20. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Stream-of-consciousness
Personification
Daniel Defoe
Eclogues
21. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Jane Austen
Irony
Aporia
Chivalry
22. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Connotation
First Folio
Cycle
Picaresque
23. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Aestheticism
Ode
First Folio
Strophe
24. Romantic period;
First Folio
William Wordsworth
Victorian Period
Christopher Marlowe
25. 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
Stanza
John Milton
Marginalization
26. 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
Epic
Aestheticism
Vignette
Ideology
27. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Dramatic Irony
Simile
Syllepsis
The Renaissance
28. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Ideology
Medieval Period
Fashionable novel
roman a clef
29. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
John Milton
Verisimilitude
Meter
Abstraction
30. 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.
Epode
Enjambment
Assonance
Antistrophe
31. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Simile
Soliloquy
Strophe
Antistrophe
32. 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.)
Epithalamium
Satire
terza rima
Meter
33. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Jane Austen
Simile
Trace
Sensation
34. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Free indirect discourse
Samuel Johnson
Aubade
New Criticism
35. A group of four works
Jane Austen
Marginalization
Tetralogy
New Criticism
36. 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
Tone
Gothic novels
Daniel Defoe
Romantic Period
37. Romantic Period
Syllepsis
Neo-Platonism
Marginalization
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
38. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Verisimilitude
Harangue
Satire
Irony
39. 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
Meter
John Milton
Epistolary novel
40. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Epode
Medieval Period
Epic Simile
Chiasmus
41. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Harangue
Epistolary Novels
Elegy
Tone
42. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Aestheticism
The Renaissance
Tone
Condition of England novel
43. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
Picaresque
Vignette
Irony
44. The rhythmic structure of poetry
roman a clef
First Folio
Meter
terza rima
45. Letters - usually formal
Epistles
Anacoluthon
Foreshadow
Sublime
46. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
William Wordsworth
Victorian Period
Charles Dickens
Chiasmus
47. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Stanza
Mystification
Iambic pentameter
Rhyme scheme
48. To put or publish. Published novel
Serialized Novels
roman a clef
Dramatic Monologue
Irony
49. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Epithalamium
Epic Simile
Metaphysical poetry
Free indirect discourse
50. 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.
Beowulf
Dramatic Monologue
Enjambment
Charles Dickens