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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Free indirect discourse
William Shakespeare
Stanza
Medieval Period
2. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Trace
Anacoluthon
Antistrophe
Rhyme scheme
3. 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'
Aubade
Abstraction
Irony
Marginalization
4. 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
Cycle
Villanelle
Dramatic Irony
Rhyme scheme
5. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Neo-Platonism
Antistrophe
William Wordsworth
Elegy
6. Augustan Period
Villanelle
roman a clef
Samuel Johnson
Simile
7. Letters - usually formal
Iambic pentameter
Epistles
Sublime
Satire
8. (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
Trace
Augustan Period
Beowulf
Wilfred Owen
9. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Panegyric
Sensation
Vignette
Medieval Period
10. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Imagery
Connotation
Verisimilitude
Condition of England novel
11. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Romantic Period
Chiasmus
Aporia
Marginalization
12. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Vignette
Harangue
Epistolary Novels
Panegyric
13. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Essay
Personification
Bidungsroman
Dramatic Irony
14. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Picaresque
heroic couple
Free indirect discourse
15. 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
Hyperbole
Imagery
Epode
Satire
16. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
The Renaissance
Augustan Period
Vignette
Epode
17. 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
Epithalamium
New Criticism
Ode
Epic Simile
18. 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
Mystery plays
Strophe
Marginalization
heroic couple
19. 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'
Epistles
Anadiplosis
Mystery plays
Free verse
20. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Connotation
Free verse
Medieval Period
Syllepsis
21. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Villanelle
Condition of England novel
Medieval Period
Verisimilitude
22. Augustan Period;
Vignette
Epistles
Epode
Alexander Pope
23. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Aestheticism
Serialized Novels
Dramatic Irony
Aubade
24. 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
Sensation
Syllepsis
Gothic novels
Soliloquy
25. (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
Antistrophe
Victorian Period
Harangue
The Renaissance
26. 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)
Epithalamium
Simile
Mystery plays
Harangue
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
Canon
Prosody
Sensation
28. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Verisimilitude
Aestheticism
roman a clef
Epic Simile
29. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Eclogues
Strophe
Panegyric
Augustan Period
30. 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.
Strophe
William Wordsworth
Epistolary novel
Samuel Johnson
31. 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'
heroic couple
Stream-of-consciousness
Anacoluthon
Mystery plays
32. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Canon
Panegyric
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
33. 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
Aestheticism
Picaresque
Connotation
34. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
The Renaissance
blank verse
Epic
Epic Simile
35. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
Simile
Abstraction
Theater of the absurd
36. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Eclogues
Villanelle
Strophe
37. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Bidungsroman
Simile
Meter
Essay
38. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Daniel Defoe
Chiasmus
Tetralogy
Free indirect discourse
39. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Vignette
Eclogues
Aestheticism
Charles Dickens
40. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Epistolary Novels
Foreshadow
Marginalization
Ode
41. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
blank verse
Allegory
Free indirect discourse
Condition of England novel
42. 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
Villanelle
Marginalization
New Criticism
Rhyming Couplet
43. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Hyperbole
Soliloquy
Free indirect discourse
terza rima
44. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Alliteration
Aporia
Marginalization
Neo-Platonism
45. 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
Epistles
Irony
Ideology
Gothic novels
46. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Mystery plays
Trace
Rhyme scheme
Bidungsroman
47. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Vignette
Metaphor
Essay
Chivalry
48. 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
Abstraction
Dramatic Irony
Simile
Beowulf
49. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Simile
Wilfred Owen
Neo-Platonism
50. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Epithalamium
Alliteration
Aestheticism
Rhyme scheme