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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Soliloquy
William Wordsworth
Epistolary novel
Foreshadow
2. Augustan Period
Gothic novels
Samuel Johnson
Hyperbole
Cycle
3. 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
Alexander Pope
Sensation
Stream-of-consciousness
Free verse
4. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Sublime
Irony
Antistrophe
5. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Romantic Period
Marginalization
Harangue
Tone
6. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Abstraction
Chivalry
Beowulf
William Wordsworth
7. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Stanza
Jane Austen
Simile
8. 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'
Epistles
Hyperbole
Christopher Marlowe
Anacoluthon
9. (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
Bidungsroman
Epithalamium
Stream-of-consciousness
10. A group of four works
Stanza
Beowulf
Tetralogy
Picaresque
11. (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
Meter
Free verse
Tone
12. Augustan Period;
Villanelle
Alexander Pope
Abstraction
Tone
13. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Verisimilitude
Chiasmus
Foreshadow
Chivalry
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.
Epode
Beowulf
heroic couple
Sublime
15. 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)
Fashionable novel
Personification
Simile
Epic
16. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Vignette
Essay
Enjambment
Canon
17. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Metaphor
Romantic Period
Victorian Period
Tone
18. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Imagery
terza rima
Sensation
Charles Dickens
19. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Iambic pentameter
Metaphor
Verisimilitude
roman a clef
20. 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.
roman a clef
Free verse
Strophe
Metaphysical poetry
21. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Bidungsroman
Hyperbole
Stanza
Rhyme scheme
22. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Mystery plays
Metaphysical poetry
Irony
Vignette
23. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Imagery
Assonance
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tetralogy
24. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Picaresque
Connotation
Condition of England novel
Epistolary novel
25. 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.
Simile
Aubade
Dramatic Monologue
Marginalization
26. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Ideology
Eclogues
Bidungsroman
Wilfred Owen
27. 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
Picaresque
Serialized Novels
Iambic pentameter
The Renaissance
28. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Cycle
Aporia
Verisimilitude
Free indirect discourse
29. 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 verse
Epic
William Shakespeare
30. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Dramatic Monologue
Rhyme scheme
First Folio
Free verse
31. 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
Epistolary Novels
Villanelle
Dramatic Monologue
Ideology
32. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Anacoluthon
terza rima
Aporia
Sublime
33. 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
Epic
Simile
Verisimilitude
Ideology
34. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Chivalry
Rhyme scheme
Christopher Marlowe
Epic
35. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Simile
Panegyric
Cycle
36. 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
Epistles
Beowulf
terza rima
Epic
37. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Anacoluthon
Metaphysical poetry
Jane Austen
Mystery plays
38. 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
Connotation
Epistles
Imagery
39. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Free verse
Victorian Period
Beowulf
Serialized Novels
40. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Aestheticism
Mystification
Free verse
Hyperbole
41. To put or publish. Published novel
Metaphysical poetry
Elegy
Sublime
Serialized Novels
42. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Panegyric
Syllepsis
Strophe
Wilfred Owen
43. 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
New Criticism
Gothic novels
Foreshadow
Bidungsroman
44. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Rhyme scheme
Enjambment
blank verse
Meter
45. 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
New Criticism
Anacoluthon
Soliloquy
Stanza
46. 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'
Irony
Connotation
Elegy
Marginalization
47. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Romantic Period
Hyperbole
Epistles
Epithalamium
48. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Tetralogy
Theater of the absurd
Romantic Period
49. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tone
Condition of England novel
Iambic pentameter
Epistolary novel
50. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Elegy
Epistolary novel
Satire
Marginalization