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CLEP English Literature All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Sublime
Verisimilitude
Neo-Platonism
Vignette
2. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Syllepsis
Epistolary Novels
Abstraction
Alexander Pope
3. Romantic Period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Beowulf
John Milton
Epode
4. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Meter
Free indirect discourse
roman a clef
terza rima
5. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Romantic Period
Dramatic Irony
William Shakespeare
Epistles
6. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Anacoluthon
William Wordsworth
Harangue
Stanza
7. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Bidungsroman
William Shakespeare
First Folio
Imagery
8. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
Irony
Neo-Platonism
Metaphor
9. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Ode
Mystery plays
First Folio
Romantic Period
10. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Beowulf
Medieval Period
Connotation
Fashionable novel
11. Romantic period;
Epistolary novel
blank verse
Alexander Pope
William Wordsworth
12. 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
Epic
Irony
Elegy
Enjambment
13. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
terza rima
Tetralogy
Allegory
Cycle
14. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Abstraction
Sensation
Gothic novels
Metaphysical poetry
15. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Beowulf
roman a clef
Neo-Platonism
Victorian Period
16. 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
Condition of England novel
First Folio
Foreshadow
Hyperbole
17. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Sublime
Rhyming Couplet
Trace
Sensation
18. 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
Imagery
Ideology
Meter
Medieval Period
19. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Alliteration
Condition of England novel
Essay
Vignette
20. Augustan Period
Mystery plays
Samuel Johnson
Soliloquy
Trace
21. 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'
Aestheticism
Dramatic Monologue
terza rima
Irony
22. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Charles Dickens
Serialized Novels
Epic Simile
Strophe
23. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Samuel Johnson
Marginalization
John Milton
24. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tone
Rhyme scheme
New Criticism
Anacoluthon
25. 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
Foreshadow
Connotation
Dramatic Monologue
Dramatic Irony
26. 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.
Sublime
Free verse
Metaphor
Prosody
27. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Harangue
Stanza
Foreshadow
Samuel Johnson
28. (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
heroic couple
Dramatic Monologue
The Renaissance
Romantic Period
29. 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'
Victorian Period
Anacoluthon
Beowulf
Anadiplosis
30. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Gothic novels
Foreshadow
Dramatic Irony
Alliteration
31. 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
Neo-Platonism
Vignette
Iambic pentameter
Christopher Marlowe
32. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Medieval Period
Jane Austen
Prosody
Marginalization
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
Hyperbole
Chivalry
Stream-of-consciousness
Free verse
34. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Epic Simile
Anacoluthon
Augustan Period
35. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Allegory
Free indirect discourse
Mystification
Abstraction
36. 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.
Harangue
Epic
blank verse
Meter
37. One of three sections of the Greek dramatic chorus and the Pindaric ode - along with the strophe and epode. These forms may be repeated in sequence within a single ode.
Epic
Epistolary Novels
Villanelle
Antistrophe
38. Letters - usually formal
Prosody
Epistles
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tetralogy
39. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
John Milton
Imagery
Theater of the absurd
Rhyme scheme
40. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Panegyric
Enjambment
Foreshadow
Iambic pentameter
41. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Epistolary Novels
Dramatic Monologue
Tone
Aestheticism
42. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Metaphysical poetry
Prosody
Assonance
Satire
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
Connotation
Theater of the absurd
Imagery
Beowulf
44. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Free verse
Epode
Eclogues
Daniel Defoe
45. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Victorian Period
Syllepsis
Connotation
Neo-Platonism
46. 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.
Stanza
Rhyming Couplet
Tetralogy
Chivalry
47. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
Metaphysical poetry
Abstraction
blank verse
48. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Sensation
Cycle
John Milton
The Renaissance
49. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Epistolary Novels
Free verse
Cycle
Elegy
50. A group of four works
Trace
Tetralogy
Romantic Period
Soliloquy