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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
William Shakespeare
Sensation
First Folio
Elegy
2. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Rhyme scheme
Augustan Period
Assonance
Metaphor
3. 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
Aestheticism
Free indirect discourse
Daniel Defoe
Ideology
4. 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
Gothic novels
Epode
John Milton
Verisimilitude
5. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Imagery
Mystification
Aubade
Jane Austen
6. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Enjambment
Alliteration
Sensation
Vignette
7. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Theater of the absurd
Essay
Christopher Marlowe
Tone
8. 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.
Rhyme scheme
William Shakespeare
Epistolary Novels
Free verse
9. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Mystery plays
Daniel Defoe
Satire
10. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Imagery
Hyperbole
Anadiplosis
Anacoluthon
11. 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
Alexander Pope
Verisimilitude
Bidungsroman
Villanelle
12. (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
The Renaissance
Dramatic Irony
Anacoluthon
heroic couple
13. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Condition of England novel
Eclogues
Fashionable novel
Epithalamium
14. 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.
Free verse
Epic Simile
Sublime
Epistolary Novels
15. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Metaphor
Epithalamium
William Shakespeare
Aestheticism
16. 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'
Essay
Connotation
Anadiplosis
Canon
17. 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.
blank verse
Chivalry
Personification
Ode
18. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Elegy
William Shakespeare
Panegyric
Sublime
19. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Ode
Romantic Period
Vignette
Epithalamium
20. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Antistrophe
Trace
Aestheticism
Condition of England novel
21. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Free verse
Charles Dickens
Marginalization
Anacoluthon
22. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Anacoluthon
Picaresque
Stanza
Trace
23. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Fashionable novel
Daniel Defoe
Verisimilitude
Enjambment
24. 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
heroic couple
Beowulf
Neo-Platonism
Marginalization
25. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Iambic pentameter
terza rima
Victorian Period
Picaresque
26. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Beowulf
Serialized Novels
Harangue
27. 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.
Epic
Irony
Metaphor
Antistrophe
28. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Charles Dickens
Anacoluthon
Connotation
Epic Simile
29. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Metaphor
Victorian Period
Harangue
Rhyming Couplet
30. 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.
Connotation
Alexander Pope
Strophe
New Criticism
31. Romantic period;
Fashionable novel
Stream-of-consciousness
Mystery plays
William Wordsworth
32. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Prosody
Anadiplosis
Satire
William Shakespeare
33. Romantic Period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Free verse
Prosody
Bidungsroman
34. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Theater of the absurd
Abstraction
Fashionable novel
Strophe
35. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Metaphysical poetry
Metaphor
New Criticism
roman a clef
36. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Wilfred Owen
Tone
Daniel Defoe
Theater of the absurd
37. 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
Romantic Period
Sublime
Theater of the absurd
38. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Jane Austen
Harangue
Essay
John Milton
39. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tone
Canon
Villanelle
Bidungsroman
40. 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.
Wilfred Owen
Victorian Period
Epode
William Wordsworth
41. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Epic
Abstraction
Allegory
Epode
42. To put or publish. Published novel
blank verse
Daniel Defoe
William Shakespeare
Serialized Novels
43. 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'
Free indirect discourse
Dramatic Irony
Tetralogy
Anacoluthon
44. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Fashionable novel
Alexander Pope
Chiasmus
Victorian Period
45. 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
Aestheticism
Tone
blank verse
46. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Wilfred Owen
Daniel Defoe
Foreshadow
Medieval Period
47. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Villanelle
Victorian Period
John Milton
48. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Imagery
Canon
Daniel Defoe
Metaphor
49. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Anadiplosis
Sensation
Gothic novels
Villanelle
50. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Medieval Period
Cycle
William Shakespeare
Verisimilitude