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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Epode
Free indirect discourse
Epic
The Renaissance
2. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Irony
Trace
Tone
Daniel Defoe
3. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth
Rhyme scheme
Sublime
4. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Abstraction
Romantic Period
blank verse
terza rima
5. 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
Harangue
Metaphysical poetry
Bidungsroman
Wilfred Owen
6. 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
Satire
Chivalry
First Folio
7. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Connotation
Alexander Pope
Sensation
Marginalization
8. 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.
Trace
Sublime
Foreshadow
Assonance
9. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
The Renaissance
Soliloquy
Epithalamium
Stanza
10. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Bidungsroman
Metaphysical poetry
Mystification
Meter
11. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Prosody
Canon
Tone
Essay
12. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Satire
Villanelle
John Milton
13. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Wilfred Owen
Dramatic Monologue
Prosody
Abstraction
14. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Aubade
Epode
Syllepsis
William Wordsworth
15. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Enjambment
Jane Austen
Epithalamium
William Shakespeare
16. Augustan Period;
Dramatic Irony
Alexander Pope
Charles Dickens
Connotation
17. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Canon
Satire
Sublime
Epode
18. 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
Theater of the absurd
Free indirect discourse
Hyperbole
Iambic pentameter
19. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Syllepsis
Stanza
Stream-of-consciousness
roman a clef
20. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
First Folio
Theater of the absurd
Condition of England novel
Cycle
21. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Vignette
Simile
Ideology
Charles Dickens
22. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Ode
Connotation
Assonance
Free verse
23. Augustan Period
Allegory
Epistolary novel
Elegy
Samuel Johnson
24. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Dramatic Irony
Serialized Novels
First Folio
Aubade
25. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Epistles
blank verse
Personification
Epistolary Novels
26. 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
Free indirect discourse
Epic Simile
Free verse
27. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Victorian Period
Chiasmus
Free indirect discourse
Personification
28. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Allegory
Charles Dickens
Theater of the absurd
Alliteration
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.
Epistles
Aubade
Aporia
Rhyme scheme
30. 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
Tone
Epithalamium
Mystification
Ideology
31. 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
Verisimilitude
Mystery plays
Antistrophe
32. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Assonance
Theater of the absurd
Epistolary Novels
Romantic Period
33. Romantic Period
Antistrophe
Christopher Marlowe
Anadiplosis
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
34. 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
Charles Dickens
Rhyming Couplet
Chiasmus
Connotation
35. 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
Tetralogy
terza rima
Epistles
36. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Metaphor
Enjambment
John Milton
Simile
37. 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
Essay
Meter
Epistles
38. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Serialized Novels
Prosody
Ode
Trace
39. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Soliloquy
Metaphysical poetry
The Renaissance
Aubade
40. 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.
Condition of England novel
Dramatic Monologue
Irony
Stanza
41. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Fashionable novel
Stanza
Victorian Period
Christopher Marlowe
42. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Imagery
Elegy
Verisimilitude
Hyperbole
43. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Elegy
Ode
Epic Simile
Medieval Period
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
Elegy
Epic Simile
heroic couple
Aporia
45. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Abstraction
Christopher Marlowe
roman a clef
46. 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
Anacoluthon
Wilfred Owen
Connotation
47. (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
William Shakespeare
Theater of the absurd
The Renaissance
Jane Austen
48. (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
Neo-Platonism
Alexander Pope
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Augustan Period
49. 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.
Epode
blank verse
Verisimilitude
Alexander Pope
50. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Anacoluthon
Alliteration
Assonance
Tetralogy