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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Ideology
Sensation
Wilfred Owen
Aporia
2. 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
Chiasmus
Dramatic Irony
Condition of England novel
Canon
3. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Ideology
Mystery plays
blank verse
New Criticism
4. 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
Anacoluthon
Iambic pentameter
Epic Simile
Eclogues
5. Letters - usually formal
Epistles
Marginalization
Ode
Panegyric
6. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Jane Austen
Metaphor
Metaphysical poetry
Free indirect discourse
7. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Epistolary novel
Prosody
Rhyming Couplet
Personification
8. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Prosody
Imagery
Theater of the absurd
Anadiplosis
9. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Strophe
Jane Austen
William Wordsworth
Essay
10. 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.
Anadiplosis
Alexander Pope
Syllepsis
Epic
11. 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
Trace
Imagery
Hyperbole
Sensation
12. A group of four works
Personification
Enjambment
Harangue
Tetralogy
13. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Dramatic Irony
Christopher Marlowe
Charles Dickens
terza rima
14. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Anadiplosis
Hyperbole
Tone
Daniel Defoe
15. Romantic period;
terza rima
Rhyming Couplet
William Wordsworth
blank verse
16. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Satire
Medieval Period
Tone
Verisimilitude
17. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Aporia
Ode
Marginalization
Meter
18. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Eclogues
Wilfred Owen
Tone
Syllepsis
19. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Metaphor
Cycle
Canon
Harangue
20. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Stream-of-consciousness
Essay
Soliloquy
New Criticism
21. 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
Tetralogy
Christopher Marlowe
heroic couple
22. 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.
Verisimilitude
Augustan Period
roman a clef
Epode
23. 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.
New Criticism
Meter
Aubade
Iambic pentameter
24. 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.
Free verse
Epic
heroic couple
Chiasmus
25. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Stream-of-consciousness
Elegy
Alexander Pope
Villanelle
26. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Soliloquy
Epistolary Novels
Elegy
Chiasmus
27. Repetition at the start of a sentence of the concluding word or phrase in the previous sentence. For example: 'There's only so much exercise you can get on a plane. A air plane is not the greatest place to work out'
Epic
Anadiplosis
John Milton
Theater of the absurd
28. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Samuel Johnson
Personification
Aestheticism
Augustan Period
29. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
blank verse
First Folio
Imagery
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Samuel Johnson
Epode
Dramatic Monologue
Metaphysical poetry
31. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Stream-of-consciousness
Beowulf
Epithalamium
Sensation
32. 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.
Wilfred Owen
Dramatic Monologue
First Folio
Alliteration
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.
Soliloquy
Alexander Pope
Chivalry
Meter
34. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Stanza
Epistles
Verisimilitude
John Milton
35. 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
Dramatic Monologue
Free indirect discourse
Hyperbole
Ideology
36. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
The Renaissance
Essay
37. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Dramatic Monologue
Alliteration
Rhyme scheme
roman a clef
38. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Trace
Epic
Beowulf
Personification
39. 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
Theater of the absurd
Imagery
William Shakespeare
40. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Epithalamium
Canon
Trace
Syllepsis
41. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Epic Simile
Personification
Gothic novels
Wilfred Owen
42. 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
Cycle
Bidungsroman
Verisimilitude
heroic couple
43. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Marginalization
heroic couple
Mystery plays
Sublime
44. Romantic Period
Mystery plays
Epic
Foreshadow
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
45. 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)
blank verse
Chivalry
Simile
Free indirect discourse
46. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Stanza
Assonance
Rhyming Couplet
Elegy
47. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Imagery
Villanelle
Verisimilitude
Anacoluthon
48. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Vignette
Stanza
Free verse
Charles Dickens
49. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Aporia
Samuel Johnson
Rhyme scheme
terza rima
50. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Chiasmus
Canon
Meter
Bidungsroman