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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Sublime
Alliteration
Ode
Assonance
2. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
heroic couple
Vignette
Canon
Verisimilitude
3. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
First Folio
Alliteration
Satire
Daniel Defoe
4. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Samuel Johnson
Augustan Period
Epithalamium
Jane Austen
5. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
Mystery plays
William Wordsworth
Marginalization
6. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Tone
Mystification
Harangue
Epistolary Novels
7. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
roman a clef
Samuel Johnson
Vignette
Abstraction
8. 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'
Epic Simile
Anadiplosis
Tone
Aubade
9. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Aubade
Mystery plays
Meter
10. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Mystification
Aestheticism
Metaphysical poetry
Syllepsis
11. 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
Rhyming Couplet
Ideology
Enjambment
New Criticism
12. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Stream-of-consciousness
Epic Simile
Connotation
The Renaissance
13. 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.
Chiasmus
roman a clef
Dramatic Monologue
Irony
14. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Free indirect discourse
Vignette
John Milton
Foreshadow
15. 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
Canon
Abstraction
Prosody
Dramatic Irony
16. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Samuel Johnson
Tone
Eclogues
Beowulf
17. 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
Cycle
Rhyming Couplet
Bidungsroman
New Criticism
18. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
First Folio
The Renaissance
Antistrophe
Elegy
19. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Iambic pentameter
Ode
Satire
Sensation
20. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Aestheticism
Mystery plays
heroic couple
Theater of the absurd
21. 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
Beowulf
Chivalry
Theater of the absurd
Daniel Defoe
22. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Gothic novels
Stream-of-consciousness
roman a clef
23. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Allegory
Aubade
Epistolary novel
William Shakespeare
24. 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.
Strophe
Harangue
Epode
Cycle
25. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Essay
Personification
heroic couple
Meter
26. 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
Bidungsroman
Anacoluthon
Rhyming Couplet
Dramatic Monologue
27. 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.
Epic
Vignette
Essay
Aubade
28. Augustan Period
Charles Dickens
Assonance
Samuel Johnson
Epistolary Novels
29. 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.
Sensation
Enjambment
Epic Simile
Free verse
30. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
First Folio
Sublime
Free indirect discourse
Rhyming Couplet
31. 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)
Metaphor
Simile
Epistolary Novels
Alliteration
32. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Foreshadow
Satire
Aestheticism
Chivalry
33. (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
Epic
Augustan Period
Beowulf
Vignette
34. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Iambic pentameter
Theater of the absurd
Hyperbole
Condition of England novel
35. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
roman a clef
Ideology
Aubade
Soliloquy
36. 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
Essay
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epic
Trace
37. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Epode
Assonance
First Folio
Christopher Marlowe
38. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Soliloquy
Metaphysical poetry
Theater of the absurd
Free verse
39. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Sublime
Eclogues
Enjambment
Anacoluthon
40. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Chiasmus
Dramatic Irony
Harangue
Canon
41. 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
Abstraction
New Criticism
Epistolary novel
Picaresque
42. 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
Canon
John Milton
Hyperbole
heroic couple
43. 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
Mystification
Epistolary novel
Abstraction
44. 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
Theater of the absurd
Sublime
Bidungsroman
roman a clef
45. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Metaphysical poetry
Rhyme scheme
Christopher Marlowe
Jane Austen
46. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
Epistles
Simile
Picaresque
47. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
heroic couple
Allegory
Picaresque
Bidungsroman
48. 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'
John Milton
Anacoluthon
Connotation
Stream-of-consciousness
49. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Metaphor
Augustan Period
Wilfred Owen
Strophe
50. 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.)
Beowulf
Strophe
Picaresque
terza rima
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