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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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.
Metaphor
Enjambment
Rhyme scheme
Dramatic Monologue
2. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Alliteration
Mystery plays
Epode
Picaresque
3. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Epic
Ideology
blank verse
roman a clef
4. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Free indirect discourse
roman a clef
Picaresque
Verisimilitude
5. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Irony
Personification
Victorian Period
6. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Dramatic Irony
Alexander Pope
Elegy
7. (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
Augustan Period
The Renaissance
New Criticism
Syllepsis
8. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystification
Fashionable novel
Serialized Novels
roman a clef
9. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Wilfred Owen
Epic Simile
Dramatic Monologue
Vignette
10. 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.
Aubade
Simile
Trace
Soliloquy
11. 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.
John Milton
Strophe
Elegy
Panegyric
12. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Epic
Samuel Johnson
Elegy
13. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Elegy
Picaresque
Free verse
14. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Mystification
Verisimilitude
Stanza
Anadiplosis
15. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Simile
Tone
Elegy
16. 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
Syllepsis
Iambic pentameter
Enjambment
roman a clef
17. 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'
Anacoluthon
Romantic Period
William Shakespeare
Stanza
18. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Aubade
Chiasmus
Antistrophe
19. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Wilfred Owen
Vignette
Harangue
Irony
20. 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
William Shakespeare
Mystery plays
Elegy
21. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
The Renaissance
Epistolary novel
Daniel Defoe
22. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Aporia
Beowulf
Satire
William Shakespeare
23. 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
Trace
Metaphor
Epic
Cycle
24. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Eclogues
Free indirect discourse
Marginalization
Personification
25. Augustan Period
Theater of the absurd
Samuel Johnson
Stream-of-consciousness
Mystery plays
26. 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
Hyperbole
Neo-Platonism
heroic couple
Irony
27. 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.
Epode
Tone
Free verse
Prosody
28. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Dramatic Irony
Eclogues
Chivalry
Epistolary Novels
29. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
Metaphor
Chiasmus
William Shakespeare
30. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Essay
Neo-Platonism
Victorian Period
Foreshadow
31. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Serialized Novels
Rhyme scheme
Harangue
Enjambment
32. 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.
Aubade
Free verse
Sublime
Enjambment
33. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Neo-Platonism
Charles Dickens
roman a clef
Enjambment
34. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Victorian Period
Theater of the absurd
Metaphysical poetry
Rhyme scheme
35. Romantic Period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ode
Syllepsis
Metaphor
36. 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
William Wordsworth
New Criticism
First Folio
Epic
37. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Dramatic Monologue
Simile
Condition of England novel
Verisimilitude
38. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Anadiplosis
Metaphor
Tone
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
39. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Panegyric
Connotation
Metaphysical poetry
Aubade
40. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Simile
Meter
Ode
New Criticism
41. 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.
Tone
Meter
Epistles
Antistrophe
42. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Strophe
Verisimilitude
Canon
Daniel Defoe
43. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Victorian Period
New Criticism
Elegy
Mystery plays
44. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Soliloquy
Alliteration
Aestheticism
Jane Austen
45. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
The Renaissance
Daniel Defoe
Satire
Theater of the absurd
46. 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.
Dramatic Monologue
Hyperbole
Aporia
Gothic novels
47. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Condition of England novel
Foreshadow
Chiasmus
Sensation
48. 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
Assonance
Beowulf
Bidungsroman
Cycle
49. 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
New Criticism
Mystification
Stanza
Rhyming Couplet
50. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
The Renaissance
Fashionable novel
Panegyric
terza rima
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