SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP English Literature All In One
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
literature
,
english
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Aporia
Stream-of-consciousness
John Milton
Epode
2. 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
First Folio
Hyperbole
Iambic pentameter
Alliteration
3. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
blank verse
Bidungsroman
Picaresque
4. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Antistrophe
terza rima
Epithalamium
Sublime
5. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
John Milton
Metaphysical poetry
Dramatic Irony
Chiasmus
6. 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
Theater of the absurd
William Shakespeare
Iambic pentameter
Chiasmus
7. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Epic Simile
Mystification
Stanza
Elegy
8. 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
Stanza
Picaresque
Allegory
Samuel Johnson
9. 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
Stream-of-consciousness
Wilfred Owen
Anacoluthon
10. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
First Folio
Elegy
Medieval Period
Bidungsroman
11. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Alexander Pope
Elegy
Harangue
Samuel Johnson
12. (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
First Folio
The Renaissance
Enjambment
John Milton
13. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Anadiplosis
Epic Simile
Charles Dickens
Meter
14. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Satire
Canon
Epithalamium
William Shakespeare
15. 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
Sublime
heroic couple
Essay
Epic
16. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Epic
Epistolary novel
Chiasmus
Abstraction
17. 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.
Simile
Aestheticism
Sublime
Neo-Platonism
18. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Charles Dickens
Sublime
Mystification
Christopher Marlowe
19. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Irony
Panegyric
Chiasmus
terza rima
20. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Ode
Romantic Period
Epode
Villanelle
21. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Neo-Platonism
William Wordsworth
Anadiplosis
Jane Austen
22. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Gothic novels
Epistles
Anacoluthon
Medieval Period
23. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Rhyming Couplet
Condition of England novel
Gothic novels
Epic
24. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Medieval Period
Victorian Period
Foreshadow
roman a clef
25. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
William Shakespeare
Augustan Period
Soliloquy
Vignette
26. 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
Marginalization
Rhyming Couplet
Picaresque
27. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Imagery
Anacoluthon
Irony
Picaresque
28. Augustan Period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dramatic Irony
Samuel Johnson
Elegy
29. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Strophe
Medieval Period
Trace
Personification
30. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Beowulf
Marginalization
Foreshadow
Villanelle
31. Romantic Period
Canon
Wilfred Owen
Romantic Period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
32. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
roman a clef
John Milton
Epistolary novel
Epic Simile
33. 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.
Epode
blank verse
Chivalry
Theater of the absurd
34. 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
Ode
Metaphor
35. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Abstraction
Beowulf
Christopher Marlowe
Hyperbole
36. 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
Daniel Defoe
Bidungsroman
Free verse
Dramatic Irony
37. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Stream-of-consciousness
Epistolary Novels
Romantic Period
Medieval Period
38. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Picaresque
Alexander Pope
Epistolary Novels
Theater of the absurd
39. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
New Criticism
Free verse
Tetralogy
40. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Enjambment
Epistolary Novels
Anacoluthon
Foreshadow
41. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Epistles
Free verse
Samuel Johnson
blank verse
42. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Simile
Hyperbole
Verisimilitude
43. To put or publish. Published novel
Mystery plays
Rhyming Couplet
Elegy
Serialized Novels
44. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Enjambment
Ode
Victorian Period
Vignette
45. 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.
Anacoluthon
Antistrophe
Epic
Wilfred Owen
46. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Assonance
Mystery plays
blank verse
Beowulf
47. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Villanelle
Epistolary Novels
Allegory
Epithalamium
48. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Neo-Platonism
Meter
Simile
Connotation
49. Novel a modernist form that puts a story together by tracing the thoughts and feelings of its characters rather than through the voice of a detached narrator
Stream-of-consciousness
Marginalization
Wilfred Owen
The Renaissance
50. 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
New Criticism
Epithalamium
Aubade
Free verse