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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Cycle
Epode
Satire
Romantic Period
2. 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.
Epistles
Chivalry
Anadiplosis
Neo-Platonism
3. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Epic Simile
Abstraction
Hyperbole
4. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Bidungsroman
Anacoluthon
Imagery
Harangue
5. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Aubade
Romantic Period
Victorian Period
Allegory
6. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Abstraction
Victorian Period
Prosody
Rhyming Couplet
7. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
blank verse
Epic
The Renaissance
Beowulf
8. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Gothic novels
heroic couple
Panegyric
Sensation
9. 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
Aubade
Medieval Period
Hyperbole
Meter
10. 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
Fashionable novel
heroic couple
Epithalamium
Epic
11. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
roman a clef
Verisimilitude
Tetralogy
Enjambment
12. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Wilfred Owen
Canon
Epic Simile
John Milton
13. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Anadiplosis
Meter
Alliteration
Verisimilitude
14. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Foreshadow
Picaresque
Wilfred Owen
Enjambment
15. Letters - usually formal
Fashionable novel
Serialized Novels
Epistles
Epithalamium
16. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Eclogues
Bidungsroman
Neo-Platonism
17. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
terza rima
Epic
Foreshadow
18. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Stream-of-consciousness
Hyperbole
Abstraction
Marginalization
19. 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
Alexander Pope
Verisimilitude
Rhyme scheme
heroic couple
20. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Free indirect discourse
Sensation
The Renaissance
Romantic Period
21. 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.
Satire
Marginalization
Dramatic Monologue
Anacoluthon
22. 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
Villanelle
New Criticism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
23. 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
Dramatic Irony
roman a clef
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Syllepsis
24. 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
Victorian Period
Bidungsroman
Stream-of-consciousness
Satire
25. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epithalamium
Trace
Canon
Christopher Marlowe
26. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Chiasmus
First Folio
Tetralogy
John Milton
27. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Irony
Christopher Marlowe
Sublime
Marginalization
28. 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'
Daniel Defoe
William Shakespeare
Irony
Rhyming Couplet
29. 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
Chiasmus
Medieval Period
roman a clef
Stream-of-consciousness
30. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Marginalization
Syllepsis
Free indirect discourse
Epistolary Novels
31. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Epistolary novel
Harangue
Iambic pentameter
Alliteration
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.
Antistrophe
Epode
Iambic pentameter
Rhyming Couplet
33. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Canon
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Connotation
Allegory
34. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Abstraction
Satire
Bidungsroman
Soliloquy
35. 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.
Free verse
terza rima
Harangue
Epode
36. 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
Canon
Sensation
Theater of the absurd
37. Romantic period;
Jane Austen
William Wordsworth
Sublime
Neo-Platonism
38. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
heroic couple
Iambic pentameter
Charles Dickens
Neo-Platonism
39. A group of four works
Epistolary Novels
Foreshadow
Tetralogy
blank verse
40. 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'
Elegy
Victorian Period
Augustan Period
Anacoluthon
41. 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.
Canon
The Renaissance
Dramatic Irony
Free verse
42. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Epic
Vignette
Verisimilitude
Prosody
43. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Cycle
Romantic Period
John Milton
blank verse
44. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Epithalamium
Mystification
Verisimilitude
Strophe
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.)
Sensation
Iambic pentameter
Panegyric
terza rima
46. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
Trace
Verisimilitude
Epic Simile
47. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Aporia
New Criticism
Aestheticism
Neo-Platonism
48. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Alexander Pope
Aporia
Epistles
Ideology
49. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Tone
Metaphysical poetry
terza rima
Ideology
50. Romantic Period
Ode
Epic
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Victorian Period