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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Stanza
Rhyme scheme
terza rima
Strophe
2. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Sublime
Augustan Period
Picaresque
Enjambment
3. (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
Soliloquy
Beowulf
The Renaissance
Hyperbole
4. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Mystery plays
Trace
Aporia
Foreshadow
5. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Aporia
Beowulf
Allegory
6. 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.
Epithalamium
Elegy
Aestheticism
Strophe
7. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Prosody
Epode
Aestheticism
Imagery
8. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
Elegy
Irony
Simile
9. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
roman a clef
Chiasmus
Dramatic Monologue
Elegy
10. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
William Shakespeare
Free verse
Anacoluthon
Prosody
11. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Medieval Period
Anadiplosis
roman a clef
Mystery plays
12. 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
Assonance
Tetralogy
Verisimilitude
Picaresque
13. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Imagery
Sensation
Aporia
First Folio
14. 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.
First Folio
Epode
Sublime
Theater of the absurd
15. 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
Bidungsroman
Alexander Pope
Aubade
Gothic novels
16. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Assonance
Vignette
Epic
Mystery plays
17. Augustan Period
Condition of England novel
Samuel Johnson
Ideology
Foreshadow
18. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Irony
Marginalization
Metaphor
Allegory
19. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Harangue
Hyperbole
Alexander Pope
Stanza
20. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Meter
First Folio
Free indirect discourse
Soliloquy
21. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Vignette
Essay
Condition of England novel
Ideology
22. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
heroic couple
Elegy
Mystification
Chiasmus
23. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
William Wordsworth
Neo-Platonism
Tone
Wilfred Owen
24. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Jane Austen
Epic Simile
Free verse
Victorian Period
25. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Epistolary Novels
Epistles
New Criticism
Sensation
26. 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
Enjambment
Metaphysical poetry
Epithalamium
27. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Anadiplosis
Epistles
Rhyming Couplet
William Shakespeare
28. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Allegory
Alexander Pope
First Folio
terza rima
29. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Victorian Period
Epithalamium
Neo-Platonism
The Renaissance
30. 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'
Anadiplosis
Rhyming Couplet
Free indirect discourse
Strophe
31. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Mystery plays
Condition of England novel
Essay
Epistles
32. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Epistolary Novels
Irony
Enjambment
Assonance
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
Chivalry
Daniel Defoe
Allegory
Stream-of-consciousness
34. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
First Folio
blank verse
Villanelle
Metaphor
35. 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
Simile
Iambic pentameter
Epic
Dramatic Monologue
36. 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.
Chivalry
Connotation
Metaphor
Canon
37. 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.
Wilfred Owen
Abstraction
Chivalry
Epistolary Novels
38. 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
William Shakespeare
heroic couple
roman a clef
Enjambment
39. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Foreshadow
Daniel Defoe
Condition of England novel
Strophe
40. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Imagery
Sublime
Antistrophe
41. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
Personification
Wilfred Owen
Dramatic Monologue
42. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Prosody
Ideology
Alliteration
Gothic novels
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.
Verisimilitude
Jane Austen
Irony
Free verse
44. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Iambic pentameter
Vignette
Rhyming Couplet
Harangue
45. 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
Alexander Pope
Medieval Period
Iambic pentameter
Beowulf
46. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
roman a clef
John Milton
Strophe
Condition of England novel
47. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Syllepsis
New Criticism
Allegory
Alliteration
48. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Fashionable novel
Ode
Mystification
William Wordsworth
49. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Rhyming Couplet
Hyperbole
Simile
Syllepsis
50. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
Free verse
Sensation
Elegy
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