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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
New Criticism
Prosody
Tone
Antistrophe
2. 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.
Aubade
Fashionable novel
Eclogues
Gothic novels
3. 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'
Picaresque
Anacoluthon
Rhyme scheme
Foreshadow
4. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Free indirect discourse
John Milton
Beowulf
Essay
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
Stanza
Bidungsroman
Canon
Elegy
6. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Panegyric
heroic couple
Prosody
7. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Epic Simile
Sublime
William Shakespeare
Chivalry
8. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Epic
Elegy
Aporia
Sensation
9. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Connotation
Condition of England novel
Medieval Period
Cycle
10. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
roman a clef
Chiasmus
Serialized Novels
Antistrophe
11. Romantic Period
Epistolary Novels
Neo-Platonism
Serialized Novels
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12. 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.
Chiasmus
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ideology
Sublime
13. 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.
Canon
Fashionable novel
Metaphysical poetry
Epode
14. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Victorian Period
Hyperbole
Epic
Irony
15. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epistolary Novels
Epistolary novel
Epithalamium
Bidungsroman
16. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
John Milton
Aestheticism
Strophe
Essay
17. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Satire
Cycle
The Renaissance
Free indirect discourse
18. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Metaphysical poetry
Abstraction
Charles Dickens
Dramatic Irony
19. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Theater of the absurd
New Criticism
Epistolary Novels
20. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Vignette
Wilfred Owen
Stanza
Trace
21. 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
Bidungsroman
Condition of England novel
Epic
Charles Dickens
22. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Epistolary Novels
Trace
Epic
Alliteration
23. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Gothic novels
Ideology
Elegy
Connotation
24. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Metaphor
Marginalization
Rhyming Couplet
Epistolary Novels
25. Letters - usually formal
Epistles
John Milton
Anacoluthon
Picaresque
26. (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
Syllepsis
Prosody
Augustan Period
Ode
27. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Anadiplosis
Jane Austen
Iambic pentameter
Essay
28. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Antistrophe
Alexander Pope
Tone
Simile
29. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
heroic couple
Elegy
Canon
Charles Dickens
30. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
The Renaissance
Foreshadow
roman a clef
Metaphysical poetry
31. 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
Prosody
Antistrophe
Neo-Platonism
New Criticism
32. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Elegy
Samuel Johnson
Jane Austen
Satire
33. 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.
Tone
Anadiplosis
Antistrophe
Epistles
34. 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
Sublime
Epithalamium
Beowulf
35. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
The Renaissance
Ideology
Aporia
36. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Beowulf
Alexander Pope
Epistolary Novels
Essay
37. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Theater of the absurd
Alexander Pope
Enjambment
Elegy
38. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Harangue
Aporia
heroic couple
Panegyric
39. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Serialized Novels
Trace
Condition of England novel
Free verse
40. 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.
Allegory
New Criticism
Epistles
Chivalry
41. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Connotation
Imagery
Meter
Allegory
42. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Marginalization
Assonance
Neo-Platonism
terza rima
43. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Irony
Wilfred Owen
Free indirect discourse
Sensation
44. 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
Irony
Canon
Tetralogy
45. 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
Wilfred Owen
terza rima
Essay
Gothic novels
46. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Sensation
Canon
Soliloquy
Connotation
47. 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.
Metaphor
Theater of the absurd
Picaresque
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
48. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Alliteration
Syllepsis
Personification
Foreshadow
49. A group of four works
Medieval Period
Tetralogy
heroic couple
Victorian Period
50. 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'
Free indirect discourse
Stream-of-consciousness
Anadiplosis
The Renaissance