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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Satire
Mystery plays
Free indirect discourse
Theater of the absurd
2. 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.
Cycle
blank verse
Epistles
Tone
3. 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
Hyperbole
Epistolary novel
Iambic pentameter
Jane Austen
4. 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.
Elegy
Anacoluthon
Metaphor
Strophe
5. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Free indirect discourse
Ideology
Strophe
Hyperbole
6. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Trace
Victorian Period
Epistolary Novels
New Criticism
7. 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.
Panegyric
Charles Dickens
Aubade
First Folio
8. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Beowulf
heroic couple
Panegyric
9. Heroic poetry with an important subject of crucial national or cultural significance - together with a grand - lofty tone. Many epics tell the story of the founding of a nation or race by means of battle or journey
Epic
First Folio
Assonance
Medieval Period
10. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
The Renaissance
roman a clef
Eclogues
Iambic pentameter
11. 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
First Folio
Tone
Epistolary novel
12. 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.
Sublime
Iambic pentameter
Aporia
Tetralogy
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
Beowulf
Ideology
Marginalization
Serialized Novels
14. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Samuel Johnson
Fashionable novel
Ode
Sensation
15. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
blank verse
Stream-of-consciousness
Aporia
heroic couple
16. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
Mystery plays
Epithalamium
Strophe
17. Letters - usually formal
Epode
William Wordsworth
Alliteration
Epistles
18. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
Harangue
Foreshadow
Meter
19. 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.
Augustan Period
Romantic Period
Free verse
Epode
20. 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'
Stream-of-consciousness
Eclogues
Dramatic Irony
Anadiplosis
21. 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
William Wordsworth
Satire
Dramatic Irony
Iambic pentameter
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.
Villanelle
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Antistrophe
Epode
23. (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
Metaphor
terza rima
Epistolary Novels
24. Romantic period;
Free verse
William Wordsworth
Hyperbole
The Renaissance
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
Daniel Defoe
Medieval Period
Enjambment
Picaresque
26. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Connotation
Sublime
Tone
Antistrophe
27. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Assonance
Villanelle
Epistolary Novels
Tetralogy
28. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Free verse
Metaphysical poetry
Anacoluthon
Epistolary novel
29. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
heroic couple
Eclogues
Harangue
Free verse
30. 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.
Chivalry
Sublime
Epistolary Novels
Dramatic Monologue
31. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Theater of the absurd
Epic
Syllepsis
Harangue
32. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
Jane Austen
Wilfred Owen
Charles Dickens
33. A group of four works
heroic couple
Tetralogy
Chiasmus
Prosody
34. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Prosody
Villanelle
Serialized Novels
Harangue
35. 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)
The Renaissance
Epistolary novel
Simile
Free indirect discourse
36. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Metaphysical poetry
Panegyric
Aubade
Essay
37. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Enjambment
Wilfred Owen
Soliloquy
Ode
38. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Medieval Period
Eclogues
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Cycle
39. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Metaphor
Tetralogy
Dramatic Monologue
Enjambment
40. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Beowulf
Essay
First Folio
Wilfred Owen
41. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Free indirect discourse
Vignette
Metaphysical poetry
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
terza rima
Bidungsroman
William Shakespeare
Victorian Period
43. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Alexander Pope
Vignette
Harangue
Picaresque
44. 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
Free indirect discourse
New Criticism
Anacoluthon
Connotation
45. 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.)
Augustan Period
Epistolary Novels
terza rima
Tone
46. 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'
Abstraction
Anacoluthon
Mystery plays
Free verse
47. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Sublime
Stanza
Charles Dickens
Beowulf
48. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Trace
First Folio
New Criticism
Dramatic Irony
49. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Epistolary novel
Mystification
Foreshadow
Soliloquy
50. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Serialized Novels
Daniel Defoe
Abstraction
Sublime