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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Anadiplosis
Simile
Imagery
Vignette
2. 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
heroic couple
Anacoluthon
terza rima
Canon
3. 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
Aubade
Gothic novels
Epistolary novel
Verisimilitude
4. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Meter
Alliteration
Dramatic Irony
Neo-Platonism
5. 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
Connotation
Stream-of-consciousness
Condition of England novel
Samuel Johnson
6. 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
roman a clef
Bidungsroman
Hyperbole
Dramatic Monologue
7. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Cycle
Connotation
Aporia
Tetralogy
8. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Harangue
Stanza
Victorian Period
New Criticism
9. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Sensation
Soliloquy
Neo-Platonism
Serialized Novels
10. (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
Free indirect discourse
Anadiplosis
The Renaissance
Charles Dickens
11. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Sensation
William Wordsworth
New Criticism
Meter
12. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
William Wordsworth
Irony
Aestheticism
Romantic Period
13. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Meter
Epic
William Wordsworth
14. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Elegy
Epic
Aubade
15. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Hyperbole
Connotation
William Wordsworth
Satire
16. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Harangue
William Wordsworth
Charles Dickens
Ode
17. 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
Soliloquy
Bidungsroman
Gothic novels
Villanelle
18. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Irony
Ode
Sublime
First Folio
19. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Rhyme scheme
Satire
Romantic Period
Metaphor
20. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Aestheticism
John Milton
Epithalamium
Sensation
21. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Abstraction
Verisimilitude
Meter
Connotation
22. 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.
Vignette
Cycle
Essay
Epistolary novel
23. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Trace
Free indirect discourse
Daniel Defoe
24. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Epic
Vignette
Fashionable novel
Panegyric
25. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Anacoluthon
roman a clef
Elegy
Epistolary novel
26. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
William Shakespeare
Augustan Period
Rhyme scheme
27. 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.
Epistles
Tone
Sensation
Chivalry
28. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Syllepsis
Wilfred Owen
Chiasmus
Verisimilitude
29. 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
Epic
Samuel Johnson
Rhyming Couplet
Christopher Marlowe
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
Tetralogy
William Shakespeare
Ideology
Free verse
31. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Personification
The Renaissance
Serialized Novels
Essay
32. 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.
Soliloquy
Jane Austen
Condition of England novel
Dramatic Monologue
33. A group of four works
Simile
Epistles
Tone
Tetralogy
34. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Chiasmus
Gothic novels
Ode
terza rima
35. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Soliloquy
Prosody
The Renaissance
Christopher Marlowe
36. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Sensation
Anacoluthon
Epistolary Novels
Metaphysical poetry
37. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Dramatic Monologue
Jane Austen
Tone
Prosody
38. 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
Satire
Metaphor
Epistolary novel
39. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Picaresque
Meter
Epic Simile
Panegyric
40. 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
Daniel Defoe
Epic Simile
Iambic pentameter
Serialized Novels
41. (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
Rhyme scheme
Tetralogy
Sublime
42. 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
Verisimilitude
Epistolary novel
First Folio
New Criticism
43. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Iambic pentameter
Epithalamium
Sublime
Harangue
44. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Prosody
Dramatic Monologue
Epistolary novel
Metaphor
45. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Jane Austen
Harangue
Romantic Period
Stream-of-consciousness
46. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Alexander Pope
New Criticism
Marginalization
Connotation
47. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
blank verse
Medieval Period
John Milton
Irony
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
Chivalry
Meter
Beowulf
Irony
49. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
Free indirect discourse
Strophe
Cycle
50. Letters - usually formal
Neo-Platonism
Trace
Alliteration
Epistles