Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP English Literature All In One

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. 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






2. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.






3. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House






4. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama






5. (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






6. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it






7. To put or publish. Published novel






8. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






9. The rhythmic structure of poetry






10. 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






11. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus






12. A group of four works






13. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision






14. Augustan Period






15. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing






16. 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.






17. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






18. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work






19. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






20. 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






21. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile






22. 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.)






23. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.






24. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology






25. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






26. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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






30. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece






31. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company






32. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text






33. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






34. 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






35. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






36. 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






37. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality






38. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night






39. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






40. 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






41. 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.






42. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.






43. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.






44. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things






45. 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'






46. Romantic Period






47. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.






48. 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.






49. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism






50. 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.