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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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
Augustan Period
Trace
Aestheticism
2. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Assonance
Medieval Period
William Wordsworth
Epic Simile
3. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Free indirect discourse
Eclogues
Marginalization
4. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Jane Austen
Soliloquy
Bidungsroman
Metaphor
5. 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
Vignette
Victorian Period
Soliloquy
6. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Antistrophe
Ode
William Wordsworth
Neo-Platonism
7. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Metaphor
Rhyming Couplet
Epode
Romantic Period
8. 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
terza rima
Dramatic Monologue
Gothic novels
Picaresque
9. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Assonance
Ideology
Dramatic Irony
Foreshadow
10. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Tone
Ode
Metaphysical poetry
Abstraction
11. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Vignette
Epode
Theater of the absurd
Sublime
12. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Chivalry
Stanza
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Allegory
13. 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'
Christopher Marlowe
Rhyming Couplet
Epithalamium
Anadiplosis
14. Augustan Period
Enjambment
terza rima
Samuel Johnson
Sensation
15. Romantic Period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gothic novels
Anacoluthon
William Wordsworth
16. 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.
Epic Simile
Epode
Connotation
Epistles
17. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Simile
Strophe
Theater of the absurd
Aporia
18. 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
Simile
Aestheticism
Epode
Epic
19. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Mystery plays
Wilfred Owen
Foreshadow
blank verse
20. 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
Meter
Sensation
Imagery
21. 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
Daniel Defoe
Bidungsroman
Aestheticism
Meter
22. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Serialized Novels
Eclogues
Condition of England novel
Panegyric
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
Aestheticism
Aubade
Mystification
Picaresque
24. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
blank verse
roman a clef
The Renaissance
Syllepsis
25. 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.
Syllepsis
Neo-Platonism
Epic
Abstraction
26. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Alexander Pope
Rhyme scheme
Fashionable novel
Epic Simile
27. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Prosody
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epistles
Syllepsis
28. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
blank verse
Condition of England novel
Trace
The Renaissance
29. 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
Medieval Period
Epic Simile
Dramatic Monologue
30. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Victorian Period
Stream-of-consciousness
Allegory
Epistolary Novels
31. Romantic period;
Rhyming Couplet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
Dramatic Irony
32. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Imagery
Harangue
Free indirect discourse
Panegyric
33. 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.
Epic
Free verse
Epistolary novel
Stanza
34. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Simile
Cycle
Dramatic Monologue
Meter
35. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Essay
First Folio
Aubade
Epistles
36. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
William Wordsworth
Medieval Period
Chivalry
Anacoluthon
37. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Canon
Eclogues
Verisimilitude
Connotation
38. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Sensation
Bidungsroman
Aporia
Iambic pentameter
39. 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
First Folio
Ideology
Marginalization
Trace
40. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
Victorian Period
Jane Austen
41. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Neo-Platonism
Rhyme scheme
Tone
blank verse
42. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Condition of England novel
Syllepsis
Epistolary Novels
Romantic Period
43. 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
Picaresque
heroic couple
Christopher Marlowe
Epic Simile
44. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Ode
Anadiplosis
Metaphysical poetry
Vignette
45. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Canon
John Milton
Condition of England novel
Daniel Defoe
46. 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
Tone
Hyperbole
Epistolary Novels
Simile
47. Augustan Period;
Imagery
Dramatic Irony
Theater of the absurd
Alexander Pope
48. 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
Verisimilitude
Personification
The Renaissance
49. 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
Epode
Stream-of-consciousness
Imagery
Epistles
50. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Alliteration
Dramatic Monologue
Samuel Johnson
Verisimilitude