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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Tetralogy
William Shakespeare
Epic
Free indirect discourse
2. 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.
Beowulf
Eclogues
Epic
Strophe
3. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Wilfred Owen
Panegyric
Epistolary novel
Canon
4. 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)
Free indirect discourse
Verisimilitude
Jane Austen
Simile
5. To put or publish. Published novel
Enjambment
Canon
Prosody
Serialized Novels
6. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Eclogues
Panegyric
Mystery plays
roman a clef
7. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Epistles
Aporia
Foreshadow
Neo-Platonism
8. A group of four works
Alexander Pope
Syllepsis
Tetralogy
Connotation
9. 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
Ideology
Metaphor
Harangue
Dramatic Irony
10. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Condition of England novel
First Folio
Allegory
Free verse
11. 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
Trace
Canon
Connotation
Iambic pentameter
12. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
John Milton
Victorian Period
First Folio
Jane Austen
13. (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
Meter
Theater of the absurd
Antistrophe
The Renaissance
14. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Epic Simile
Metaphysical poetry
Ideology
15. 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.
Epistles
Free verse
Ideology
Wilfred Owen
16. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Ideology
Connotation
Charles Dickens
17. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Picaresque
Fashionable novel
Marginalization
Chiasmus
18. 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
Panegyric
Abstraction
Picaresque
19. 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
Foreshadow
Jane Austen
Antistrophe
Picaresque
20. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
The Renaissance
First Folio
Epic Simile
21. 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.
Metaphor
Aestheticism
Foreshadow
Sublime
22. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Eclogues
Meter
blank verse
Elegy
23. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Epic
Victorian Period
Irony
Harangue
24. 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.
Epic Simile
Epithalamium
Condition of England novel
Strophe
25. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Gothic novels
Hyperbole
Epistolary novel
Marginalization
26. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
John Milton
Epistolary Novels
Anacoluthon
Meter
27. 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
Villanelle
Simile
Antistrophe
Epode
28. Letters - usually formal
Free indirect discourse
Meter
Epistles
Charles Dickens
29. 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'
Verisimilitude
Anacoluthon
Alexander Pope
Panegyric
30. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Serialized Novels
terza rima
Victorian Period
Jane Austen
31. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
The Renaissance
Samuel Johnson
Harangue
Personification
32. 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.
Personification
Canon
Elegy
Antistrophe
33. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Satire
Ideology
Stream-of-consciousness
34. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Condition of England novel
Sensation
First Folio
Medieval Period
35. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Syllepsis
Epic Simile
Beowulf
Sublime
36. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
roman a clef
Augustan Period
Epistolary Novels
37. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Epistolary novel
Alexander Pope
Canon
Eclogues
38. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Tone
Syllepsis
Augustan Period
Ode
39. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Free indirect discourse
Charles Dickens
Harangue
Vignette
40. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
First Folio
Antistrophe
Metaphor
41. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Epistolary novel
Daniel Defoe
Anacoluthon
Medieval Period
42. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Cycle
Satire
Metaphysical poetry
Aestheticism
43. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Neo-Platonism
Christopher Marlowe
Sublime
Panegyric
44. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Canon
Mystery plays
Free verse
Theater of the absurd
45. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
Soliloquy
blank verse
Alliteration
46. 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'
Villanelle
Irony
Ode
Mystification
47. 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
Strophe
Theater of the absurd
Dramatic Irony
48. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Victorian Period
Ode
Meter
terza rima
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
First Folio
Personification
Epic Simile
New Criticism
50. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Villanelle
Samuel Johnson
Epithalamium
Aubade