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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epithalamium
Anadiplosis
Bidungsroman
2. Augustan Period
Verisimilitude
Victorian Period
Samuel Johnson
Sublime
3. Romantic period;
Antistrophe
First Folio
William Wordsworth
Aubade
4. 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'
Romantic Period
Irony
Picaresque
Mystery plays
5. Romantic Period
Hyperbole
blank verse
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prosody
6. 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.
Villanelle
Hyperbole
Sublime
Epode
7. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Epic
Meter
Elegy
Romantic Period
8. 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
Tetralogy
Marginalization
Aestheticism
9. 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
Syllepsis
Cycle
Bidungsroman
Ideology
10. 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
roman a clef
Vignette
Strophe
11. 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.
Anadiplosis
Sublime
Gothic novels
Assonance
12. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Foreshadow
Epistolary Novels
Imagery
heroic couple
13. 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
Free indirect discourse
Mystification
heroic couple
Enjambment
14. 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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Simile
Strophe
Verisimilitude
15. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Aestheticism
First Folio
Prosody
Dramatic Monologue
16. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Sublime
Meter
Chiasmus
17. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Allegory
Personification
Metaphor
Epistles
18. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Alexander Pope
Elegy
Epithalamium
Syllepsis
19. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Strophe
Metaphor
Jane Austen
Allegory
20. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
blank verse
Cycle
roman a clef
Mystery plays
21. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Chiasmus
Bidungsroman
William Shakespeare
Vignette
22. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
blank verse
Epic Simile
Metaphysical poetry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
23. 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.
Bidungsroman
Ode
First Folio
Cycle
24. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Iambic pentameter
Daniel Defoe
Dramatic Irony
Verisimilitude
25. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Personification
Christopher Marlowe
Elegy
Neo-Platonism
26. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Epistolary Novels
Mystery plays
Epic
Sublime
27. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Trace
Prosody
Harangue
Wilfred Owen
28. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Villanelle
Fashionable novel
Gothic novels
Marginalization
29. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Allegory
Abstraction
Romantic Period
Meter
30. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Rhyme scheme
Sensation
Epithalamium
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
31. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
William Shakespeare
Simile
Abstraction
32. 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
Irony
Epode
Aporia
33. 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.
Chivalry
Metaphysical poetry
Alexander Pope
Epic
34. 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'
Allegory
Stanza
Anadiplosis
Essay
35. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Allegory
Rhyme scheme
Eclogues
36. 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
Bidungsroman
Samuel Johnson
Picaresque
Sublime
37. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
New Criticism
Chiasmus
Epistolary Novels
38. 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.
Foreshadow
Daniel Defoe
Metaphor
Allegory
39. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Epode
New Criticism
Elegy
Victorian Period
40. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Rhyming Couplet
Enjambment
New Criticism
Meter
41. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Dramatic Monologue
Epithalamium
Ode
blank verse
42. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Metaphysical poetry
Trace
Aestheticism
Canon
43. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Assonance
Epistolary Novels
Essay
Stanza
44. 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
Charles Dickens
Stream-of-consciousness
Free indirect discourse
Elegy
45. 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
Condition of England novel
Dramatic Irony
Victorian Period
Aubade
46. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Dramatic Monologue
Panegyric
Irony
Jane Austen
47. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Enjambment
Allegory
Mystification
terza rima
48. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
Tone
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chiasmus
49. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
First Folio
Strophe
Anadiplosis
Charles Dickens
50. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
New Criticism
Christopher Marlowe
Harangue
Cycle
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