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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Jane Austen
Antistrophe
Marginalization
Victorian Period
2. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Strophe
Medieval Period
blank verse
Syllepsis
3. 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.
Abstraction
Aubade
Epic
Trace
4. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Ideology
Daniel Defoe
Alliteration
Epode
5. 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
New Criticism
heroic couple
Theater of the absurd
Strophe
6. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Strophe
Mystery plays
Daniel Defoe
Assonance
7. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Imagery
Vignette
Chivalry
Elegy
8. 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.
Bidungsroman
Rhyme scheme
Chivalry
Medieval Period
9. 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.)
Satire
terza rima
Tone
Strophe
10. 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
Chiasmus
Neo-Platonism
Charles Dickens
Gothic novels
11. 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'
Anacoluthon
Epic Simile
Dramatic Monologue
Aporia
12. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Epode
Simile
Mystification
Mystery plays
13. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Dramatic Monologue
Samuel Johnson
Condition of England novel
Chivalry
14. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Foreshadow
Essay
Stanza
Epode
15. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Alexander Pope
Serialized Novels
Epic
Soliloquy
16. 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
Connotation
Samuel Johnson
Rhyme scheme
heroic couple
17. 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
Mystery plays
Hyperbole
Imagery
Gothic novels
18. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
Serialized Novels
Prosody
Simile
19. 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
Picaresque
Rhyme scheme
Epistolary Novels
Daniel Defoe
20. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Foreshadow
Samuel Johnson
Romantic Period
Strophe
21. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Verisimilitude
Foreshadow
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wilfred Owen
22. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Iambic pentameter
Cycle
Epistolary novel
Sensation
23. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Aestheticism
Epistolary novel
Charles Dickens
Theater of the absurd
24. 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.
Assonance
Cycle
Fashionable novel
Mystification
25. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Irony
Anacoluthon
Cycle
26. 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'
Charles Dickens
Anadiplosis
Ideology
Connotation
27. 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
Iambic pentameter
Vignette
Mystery plays
Panegyric
28. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Ode
Theater of the absurd
John Milton
Fashionable novel
29. 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
Gothic novels
Stream-of-consciousness
Iambic pentameter
Prosody
30. 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
Stream-of-consciousness
Free indirect discourse
Meter
Epic
31. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Daniel Defoe
Ode
Satire
terza rima
32. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Personification
Epithalamium
Neo-Platonism
Antistrophe
33. A group of four works
Allegory
Assonance
Imagery
Tetralogy
34. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Meter
Vignette
Essay
Trace
35. 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.
Soliloquy
Sublime
William Wordsworth
Epic
36. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Rhyming Couplet
Medieval Period
Free indirect discourse
Aubade
37. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Anacoluthon
Chiasmus
Personification
38. (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
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Picaresque
Condition of England novel
The Renaissance
39. 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.
Fashionable novel
Metaphor
Cycle
Epistolary novel
40. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Harangue
Tone
Personification
roman a clef
41. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Canon
Tetralogy
Serialized Novels
Marginalization
42. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Strophe
Rhyme scheme
Alexander Pope
Epistles
43. 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
Ideology
Dramatic Monologue
Simile
Dramatic Irony
44. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tone
Rhyming Couplet
blank verse
Aestheticism
45. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Ideology
Personification
Free verse
roman a clef
46. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Aestheticism
Jane Austen
Theater of the absurd
Trace
47. 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.
Antistrophe
Foreshadow
Daniel Defoe
Epode
48. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Free indirect discourse
Epic Simile
Beowulf
Harangue
49. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Condition of England novel
New Criticism
Enjambment
William Shakespeare
50. 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
Epic Simile
Villanelle
Anadiplosis
Christopher Marlowe