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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Vignette
Metaphor
Metaphysical poetry
Bidungsroman
2. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Assonance
First Folio
Daniel Defoe
Epistles
3. 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.
Dramatic Monologue
Elegy
Stanza
Sublime
4. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Condition of England novel
Verisimilitude
Imagery
Chiasmus
5. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Romantic Period
Elegy
Augustan Period
6. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Free indirect discourse
Christopher Marlowe
Dramatic Monologue
Rhyme scheme
7. 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'
Marginalization
Epithalamium
Irony
Romantic Period
8. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Trace
Free indirect discourse
Fashionable novel
John Milton
9. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Serialized Novels
Metaphor
Prosody
Rhyming Couplet
10. Augustan Period
Epistles
Ideology
Samuel Johnson
Foreshadow
11. 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.
Tetralogy
Personification
Verisimilitude
Cycle
12. 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
William Wordsworth
Epic
William Shakespeare
Aestheticism
13. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Stream-of-consciousness
Foreshadow
John Milton
Epistolary Novels
14. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Sensation
Foreshadow
Connotation
Chiasmus
15. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Bidungsroman
Serialized Novels
Epode
blank verse
16. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Rhyming Couplet
Ode
Free verse
Allegory
17. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Neo-Platonism
Mystification
Syllepsis
Charles Dickens
18. 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
Free verse
Neo-Platonism
Enjambment
19. (1670-1790) identified literature as a worthy cultural pursuit capable of reconciling respect for classical learning with the evolving interests and tastes of the educated middle class. Translated - imitated - and elucidated the most respectable anci
Meter
Iambic pentameter
Abstraction
Augustan Period
20. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Gothic novels
Condition of England novel
Mystification
Foreshadow
21. (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
Chiasmus
The Renaissance
Victorian Period
Rhyming Couplet
22. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Stanza
Alexander Pope
Marginalization
The Renaissance
23. 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
Gothic novels
Picaresque
Metaphysical poetry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
24. 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
Hyperbole
Epithalamium
Prosody
Simile
25. 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
Wilfred Owen
Iambic pentameter
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Irony
26. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Hyperbole
Metaphor
blank verse
Alliteration
27. 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.
Anadiplosis
First Folio
Epode
Mystery plays
28. 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
Wilfred Owen
Bidungsroman
heroic couple
Verisimilitude
29. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
New Criticism
Satire
Gothic novels
Jane Austen
30. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Antistrophe
Aporia
Strophe
Elegy
31. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
heroic couple
Theater of the absurd
Aporia
Hyperbole
32. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
Dramatic Irony
Free indirect discourse
Verisimilitude
33. 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.
First Folio
Aporia
Cycle
Metaphor
34. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Theater of the absurd
Beowulf
Mystery plays
Essay
35. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Epistolary novel
John Milton
Canon
Anadiplosis
36. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Ode
Enjambment
Imagery
37. 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.
Stanza
Ode
Gothic novels
Free verse
38. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Medieval Period
Daniel Defoe
Fashionable novel
roman a clef
39. 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.
Strophe
Wilfred Owen
Ode
Theater of the absurd
40. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Assonance
Neo-Platonism
roman a clef
terza rima
41. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Epistles
Rhyme scheme
Verisimilitude
42. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Daniel Defoe
Free verse
Tetralogy
Condition of England novel
43. 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
Prosody
Foreshadow
Samuel Johnson
New Criticism
44. To put or publish. Published novel
Cycle
Serialized Novels
Panegyric
Anadiplosis
45. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Epic
Verisimilitude
Abstraction
Prosody
46. 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
Rhyme scheme
roman a clef
Condition of England novel
Rhyming Couplet
47. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Abstraction
Romantic Period
Satire
Epic
48. 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.
Enjambment
Syllepsis
Chivalry
Samuel Johnson
49. 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)
Simile
Harangue
Samuel Johnson
Charles Dickens
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'
Strophe
Anadiplosis
Serialized Novels
Aubade