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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Wilfred Owen
Condition of England novel
Dramatic Irony
Satire
2. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tone
Tetralogy
Theater of the absurd
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3. (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
Mystification
Villanelle
Augustan Period
blank verse
4. 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
Samuel Johnson
Rhyme scheme
Assonance
Picaresque
5. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Rhyming Couplet
John Milton
Alliteration
Christopher Marlowe
6. 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.)
Abstraction
Alliteration
terza rima
Anacoluthon
7. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Satire
Sensation
First Folio
Mystification
8. Augustan Period;
Alexander Pope
Marginalization
Stream-of-consciousness
Epic Simile
9. 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
Verisimilitude
Imagery
Assonance
Beowulf
10. Romantic Period
Simile
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bidungsroman
Imagery
11. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Chivalry
Chiasmus
Victorian Period
William Shakespeare
12. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Rhyming Couplet
Alexander Pope
Epic
13. 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.
Romantic Period
Metaphor
terza rima
Chivalry
14. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Victorian Period
Meter
Foreshadow
Picaresque
15. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
John Milton
Panegyric
Aubade
Free indirect discourse
16. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Trace
Personification
Victorian Period
Epistolary Novels
17. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Mystification
Canon
Harangue
Christopher Marlowe
18. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Iambic pentameter
Beowulf
Meter
Satire
19. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
The Renaissance
Bidungsroman
Epic Simile
Abstraction
20. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Cycle
Epithalamium
Antistrophe
Hyperbole
21. 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
Tone
Rhyming Couplet
Abstraction
Antistrophe
22. 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
Abstraction
Fashionable novel
Epistolary Novels
Iambic pentameter
23. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Condition of England novel
Metaphysical poetry
Sublime
24. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
Anacoluthon
Villanelle
Aubade
25. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Alexander Pope
Charles Dickens
Dramatic Irony
Enjambment
26. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
John Milton
First Folio
Epistolary novel
Epic
27. 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
Epistles
Iambic pentameter
Irony
Bidungsroman
28. 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
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sublime
William Shakespeare
29. 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.
Epic
Aubade
Bidungsroman
Metaphysical poetry
30. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
William Wordsworth
Imagery
Metaphor
Meter
31. 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
Epistles
Simile
Enjambment
32. 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
Strophe
Trace
Cycle
Hyperbole
33. 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
John Milton
Stream-of-consciousness
Daniel Defoe
blank verse
34. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Essay
Antistrophe
Fashionable novel
Marginalization
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.
Harangue
Metaphor
Antistrophe
Epode
36. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
William Shakespeare
Neo-Platonism
Aubade
Epistles
37. 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
Epode
Augustan Period
terza rima
38. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Canon
Verisimilitude
Epithalamium
Ideology
39. 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
Vignette
Anacoluthon
New Criticism
Medieval Period
40. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Imagery
Epic
Epistolary novel
Assonance
41. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Rhyming Couplet
Ideology
blank verse
Eclogues
42. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Gothic novels
Sensation
Meter
Cycle
43. 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.
Alexander Pope
Connotation
Chivalry
Free verse
44. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Stream-of-consciousness
Hyperbole
Aestheticism
Anadiplosis
45. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Serialized Novels
Epode
Free verse
Medieval Period
46. 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.
Marginalization
Prosody
Epic
Augustan Period
47. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Tone
Imagery
Epic Simile
Eclogues
48. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Connotation
Free verse
Strophe
Trace
49. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Harangue
Enjambment
Chiasmus
50. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
blank verse
Rhyming Couplet
Mystery plays
Victorian Period