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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Foreshadow
Enjambment
Epic
Charles Dickens
2. (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
Epistolary novel
Free indirect discourse
Theater of the absurd
3. To put or publish. Published novel
Serialized Novels
Aestheticism
First Folio
Fashionable novel
4. 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
Stream-of-consciousness
Epistles
Iambic pentameter
Epithalamium
5. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Panegyric
Vignette
Rhyme scheme
Iambic pentameter
6. A group of four works
blank verse
Personification
Aestheticism
Tetralogy
7. 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.
Epistolary novel
Strophe
Assonance
Harangue
8. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Simile
Sensation
Verisimilitude
heroic couple
9. 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
Marginalization
Picaresque
Iambic pentameter
Villanelle
10. 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.
Picaresque
Dramatic Monologue
Verisimilitude
Chivalry
11. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Anacoluthon
Epic
Mystification
12. 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.
Tone
Chivalry
Wilfred Owen
Chiasmus
13. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Meter
Mystery plays
Abstraction
Condition of England novel
14. 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.
Gothic novels
Abstraction
Bidungsroman
Sublime
15. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Bidungsroman
Wilfred Owen
Canon
Abstraction
16. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
blank verse
Aestheticism
Samuel Johnson
17. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Serialized Novels
blank verse
Epic
Epistles
18. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystification
Assonance
Aestheticism
Sublime
19. 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'
Wilfred Owen
Irony
John Milton
Hyperbole
20. 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
Dramatic Monologue
Simile
Assonance
Rhyming Couplet
21. 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
Aporia
Daniel Defoe
Abstraction
22. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Aestheticism
Epithalamium
Canon
New Criticism
23. (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
The Renaissance
Epithalamium
Samuel Johnson
Dramatic Irony
24. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
Sublime
roman a clef
Christopher Marlowe
25. 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'
Theater of the absurd
William Wordsworth
Anacoluthon
Epic Simile
26. 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
Theater of the absurd
Cycle
Hyperbole
Dramatic Irony
27. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Epode
Medieval Period
Daniel Defoe
Chiasmus
28. 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.)
terza rima
Christopher Marlowe
Epic
Sublime
29. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Canon
Metaphysical poetry
First Folio
Anadiplosis
30. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
roman a clef
Verisimilitude
Assonance
Epistolary Novels
31. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Trace
Theater of the absurd
Epic
Condition of England novel
32. 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.
Mystery plays
Rhyming Couplet
First Folio
Epic
33. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Condition of England novel
Gothic novels
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christopher Marlowe
34. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Marginalization
Canon
Satire
Tone
35. 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.
Abstraction
Epode
Harangue
Ideology
36. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Stanza
First Folio
New Criticism
William Shakespeare
37. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Gothic novels
Epode
Eclogues
Christopher Marlowe
38. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Syllepsis
Abstraction
Satire
Neo-Platonism
39. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
William Shakespeare
Iambic pentameter
Romantic Period
Simile
40. 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
Ideology
The Renaissance
Romantic Period
Verisimilitude
41. 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.
Augustan Period
Tone
Aubade
Eclogues
42. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
roman a clef
Epithalamium
Hyperbole
43. 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
Epistles
Charles Dickens
Strophe
44. 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
The Renaissance
Samuel Johnson
heroic couple
45. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Rhyme scheme
Epode
Allegory
Free indirect discourse
46. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
John Milton
Tone
Daniel Defoe
Aporia
47. Romantic Period
Verisimilitude
Charles Dickens
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Trace
48. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Metaphor
Connotation
Marginalization
blank verse
49. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Free indirect discourse
Christopher Marlowe
Fashionable novel
Allegory
50. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Aestheticism
terza rima
Allegory
Ode
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