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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Theater of the absurd
The Renaissance
Harangue
Romantic Period
2. 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
Ideology
John Milton
First Folio
Hyperbole
3. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Assonance
Aestheticism
Chivalry
Essay
4. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Epode
Tetralogy
Free verse
Alliteration
5. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Aestheticism
Free indirect discourse
Medieval Period
Strophe
6. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Jane Austen
roman a clef
Canon
Connotation
7. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Epode
Christopher Marlowe
Epistolary novel
Metaphor
8. Letters - usually formal
Epistles
Irony
Iambic pentameter
Ideology
9. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Cycle
Theater of the absurd
Chivalry
Verisimilitude
10. 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.
Stream-of-consciousness
Mystery plays
Chivalry
Epistolary Novels
11. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Cycle
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Foreshadow
Charles Dickens
12. (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
Augustan Period
Beowulf
Tetralogy
Alexander Pope
13. 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.
Marginalization
Strophe
Epistles
Metaphysical poetry
14. 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.)
The Renaissance
Tone
terza rima
Assonance
15. 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
Epic Simile
Cycle
The Renaissance
16. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Anacoluthon
Epode
Chiasmus
Epic
17. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Tetralogy
Theater of the absurd
Aubade
Sensation
18. 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'
Samuel Johnson
Bidungsroman
Jane Austen
Anadiplosis
19. 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
Epistolary novel
The Renaissance
Villanelle
20. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Aporia
Rhyme scheme
Free indirect discourse
Soliloquy
21. 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
Mystification
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Strophe
Epic
22. (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
Rhyming Couplet
Assonance
The Renaissance
Chiasmus
23. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Tone
Prosody
Ideology
Metaphysical poetry
24. 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.
Vignette
Chivalry
Strophe
Antistrophe
25. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Romantic Period
Fashionable novel
Tone
26. 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'
Tetralogy
Anacoluthon
Aestheticism
Theater of the absurd
27. 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
Harangue
Condition of England novel
Foreshadow
28. 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
Canon
Stream-of-consciousness
Dramatic Irony
Harangue
29. A poem of fixed form - French in origin - consisting usually of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza and having only two rhymes throughout
Strophe
Villanelle
Dramatic Monologue
Dramatic Irony
30. To put or publish. Published novel
Wilfred Owen
Fashionable novel
Marginalization
Serialized Novels
31. Romantic Period
Alliteration
Metaphysical poetry
Beowulf
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
32. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Medieval Period
Epistolary novel
Daniel Defoe
New Criticism
33. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Iambic pentameter
Imagery
Epic
Panegyric
34. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Chivalry
Eclogues
Verisimilitude
Aporia
35. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Charles Dickens
Syllepsis
Satire
Aestheticism
36. 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
Simile
Aubade
Bidungsroman
Trace
37. 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
Foreshadow
Tetralogy
Rhyming Couplet
Iambic pentameter
38. 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
roman a clef
Satire
Free verse
39. 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
Soliloquy
Bidungsroman
Augustan Period
heroic couple
40. Augustan Period;
Alliteration
Panegyric
Sensation
Alexander Pope
41. Augustan Period
Cycle
Samuel Johnson
Christopher Marlowe
Marginalization
42. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Eclogues
Foreshadow
Epic Simile
Canon
43. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Meter
John Milton
Foreshadow
New Criticism
44. 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
Theater of the absurd
Neo-Platonism
Strophe
45. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Dramatic Irony
Cycle
Elegy
Panegyric
46. 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)
blank verse
Simile
Villanelle
Epic
47. 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
Picaresque
Chiasmus
Anacoluthon
Rhyming Couplet
48. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Canon
Picaresque
Abstraction
Daniel Defoe
49. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
Epic
Foreshadow
Victorian Period
50. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Aporia
Bidungsroman
Essay
Epistolary Novels