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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Chiasmus
Anacoluthon
Alliteration
Jane Austen
2. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Neo-Platonism
Sensation
Fashionable novel
Samuel Johnson
3. To put or publish. Published novel
Stream-of-consciousness
Villanelle
Serialized Novels
Romantic Period
4. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epithalamium
Rhyme scheme
Epistolary novel
Ideology
5. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Rhyme scheme
Satire
Stanza
Ode
6. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Marginalization
Anacoluthon
Eclogues
Verisimilitude
7. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Trace
Neo-Platonism
Abstraction
Enjambment
8. A poem of fixed form - French in origin - consisting usually of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza and having only two rhymes throughout
Alliteration
Villanelle
Harangue
Dramatic Monologue
9. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
John Milton
blank verse
Prosody
Allegory
10. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Chiasmus
Gothic novels
Essay
Free indirect discourse
11. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Free verse
Aubade
Canon
Bidungsroman
12. 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
Ideology
Hyperbole
Mystification
13. 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
Epistolary Novels
Beowulf
Dramatic Monologue
Sensation
14. 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
Tone
Iambic pentameter
Marginalization
Dramatic Irony
15. 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
Epic
New Criticism
Tetralogy
roman a clef
16. 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.
Samuel Johnson
Neo-Platonism
Strophe
Simile
17. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Epithalamium
Victorian Period
Aporia
18. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Stanza
Alliteration
Epic
Fashionable novel
19. (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
Charles Dickens
Medieval Period
Foreshadow
20. 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
Rhyming Couplet
Hyperbole
William Wordsworth
Daniel Defoe
21. 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.
Allegory
Epic
Meter
William Shakespeare
22. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Jane Austen
Epic
Christopher Marlowe
Condition of England novel
23. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Meter
Enjambment
Panegyric
Chiasmus
24. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Bidungsroman
Iambic pentameter
Panegyric
Epistolary Novels
25. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Neo-Platonism
Charles Dickens
Alliteration
Satire
26. 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.
Personification
Cycle
Essay
Metaphysical poetry
27. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Sensation
Tone
Medieval Period
Metaphor
28. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Syllepsis
Foreshadow
Dramatic Monologue
Villanelle
29. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Assonance
William Shakespeare
Marginalization
Metaphysical poetry
30. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Epic
Beowulf
John Milton
Ideology
31. Augustan Period
Fashionable novel
Stream-of-consciousness
Anacoluthon
Samuel Johnson
32. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Charles Dickens
Aubade
Meter
Elegy
33. 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.
Picaresque
Alliteration
Aubade
Eclogues
34. 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'
Epode
Anacoluthon
Free verse
Samuel Johnson
35. Augustan Period;
Meter
Irony
Alexander Pope
Tone
36. (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
Alexander Pope
Picaresque
The Renaissance
Jane Austen
37. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Free verse
Christopher Marlowe
Mystery plays
Soliloquy
38. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Verisimilitude
Alliteration
First Folio
Syllepsis
39. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Alexander Pope
Connotation
Anacoluthon
Eclogues
40. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Eclogues
Anadiplosis
Trace
Enjambment
41. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Epistolary novel
Romantic Period
Bidungsroman
Assonance
42. 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
Aestheticism
heroic couple
Epithalamium
43. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Epic Simile
Allegory
Marginalization
Trace
44. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Strophe
Picaresque
Irony
Tone
45. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Ode
Epistolary novel
Victorian Period
Imagery
46. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Augustan Period
Tone
Medieval Period
Personification
47. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Aestheticism
Aporia
Satire
Elegy
48. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Augustan Period
Stanza
Serialized Novels
Aestheticism
49. 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.
Verisimilitude
Free verse
Neo-Platonism
Ode
50. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Rhyming Couplet
New Criticism
Chivalry