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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Chiasmus
John Milton
Sublime
Beowulf
2. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
blank verse
Allegory
Epistolary Novels
Epode
3. 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.
Marginalization
Rhyme scheme
Chivalry
Epic
4. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Marginalization
Theater of the absurd
Trace
Meter
5. 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
Romantic Period
Anacoluthon
Hyperbole
Epic
6. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Stream-of-consciousness
Free indirect discourse
Essay
7. 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.
Epic
Condition of England novel
Theater of the absurd
Personification
8. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
Dramatic Irony
Neo-Platonism
New Criticism
9. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Picaresque
Free indirect discourse
Chiasmus
Prosody
10. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Rhyming Couplet
John Milton
Ideology
Harangue
11. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
Condition of England novel
Epithalamium
Chiasmus
12. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Chivalry
Essay
Soliloquy
Rhyming Couplet
13. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
Epistolary Novels
Anadiplosis
Bidungsroman
14. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epithalamium
Anadiplosis
Imagery
Prosody
15. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Strophe
Mystery plays
Personification
Aestheticism
16. 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
Aporia
Anacoluthon
Epic
Syllepsis
17. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Connotation
Stream-of-consciousness
First Folio
Vignette
18. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Harangue
Verisimilitude
Ideology
Trace
19. Novels about gruesome doings and supernatural horrors - usually set far away and long ago. The form emerged during the eighteenth century but gained popularity and respectability in the nineteenth - as the imagination in literature came to be more hi
William Wordsworth
terza rima
Gothic novels
Verisimilitude
20. 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)
Charles Dickens
Alliteration
Simile
Ode
21. Augustan Period;
Abstraction
Vignette
Alexander Pope
Villanelle
22. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Alliteration
Abstraction
Mystification
Stanza
23. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Dramatic Monologue
Christopher Marlowe
Epistolary novel
Augustan Period
24. 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
Iambic pentameter
Essay
New Criticism
Charles Dickens
25. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
Free verse
Prosody
Tone
26. 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.
Syllepsis
Alliteration
Antistrophe
Tone
27. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Harangue
Elegy
Samuel Johnson
Trace
28. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Aubade
blank verse
Fashionable novel
Stanza
29. A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common Ex: Her home was a prison.
Free verse
Metaphor
Cycle
Alexander Pope
30. Romantic Period
Rhyme scheme
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
blank verse
Vignette
31. 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.
Medieval Period
Cycle
Stream-of-consciousness
Christopher Marlowe
32. Letters - usually formal
Satire
Victorian Period
Epistles
Abstraction
33. Romantic period;
Christopher Marlowe
Chivalry
William Wordsworth
terza rima
34. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Chivalry
heroic couple
Imagery
Picaresque
35. 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
Dramatic Irony
Bidungsroman
Sublime
36. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Marginalization
Beowulf
Gothic novels
Bidungsroman
37. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Sensation
Allegory
Ode
Condition of England novel
38. 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
Canon
Assonance
Antistrophe
39. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Christopher Marlowe
Charles Dickens
Aubade
Mystification
40. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Wilfred Owen
Dramatic Irony
Sublime
Harangue
41. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Epistles
Stream-of-consciousness
roman a clef
Anacoluthon
42. 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'
Panegyric
Epic Simile
Essay
Anacoluthon
43. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Alliteration
Antistrophe
William Shakespeare
Rhyming Couplet
44. 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
Chivalry
Daniel Defoe
Villanelle
Epithalamium
45. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Abstraction
Enjambment
Mystification
Stream-of-consciousness
46. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Tetralogy
Chiasmus
Epic Simile
Wilfred Owen
47. 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
Daniel Defoe
New Criticism
Condition of England novel
Verisimilitude
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.
Alliteration
Epode
Serialized Novels
Dramatic Monologue
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
Elegy
Chivalry
Stream-of-consciousness
Dramatic Irony
50. 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'
Anadiplosis
Essay
Epic
Trace
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