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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Canon
Hyperbole
blank verse
Verisimilitude
2. 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
Stream-of-consciousness
Victorian Period
Mystification
Free verse
3. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Abstraction
Soliloquy
Epic
Foreshadow
4. 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.
Connotation
Theater of the absurd
Chivalry
Harangue
5. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Strophe
Assonance
blank verse
Rhyming Couplet
6. 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'
Stream-of-consciousness
Epic
Anacoluthon
Dramatic Monologue
7. 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
Syllepsis
Medieval Period
Epic
Hyperbole
8. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Epic
Sensation
Connotation
Serialized Novels
9. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Trace
William Wordsworth
Sublime
First Folio
10. A group of four works
Daniel Defoe
Foreshadow
Tetralogy
Vignette
11. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
New Criticism
Marginalization
Bidungsroman
Victorian Period
12. 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
Condition of England novel
The Renaissance
Epic Simile
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.
Epode
Satire
Stream-of-consciousness
Enjambment
14. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
roman a clef
First Folio
blank verse
Anadiplosis
15. 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.
Sublime
Ideology
Antistrophe
Stanza
16. 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'
Augustan Period
Canon
Epistolary novel
Irony
17. 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
Soliloquy
Epic Simile
Picaresque
Daniel Defoe
18. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Vignette
Beowulf
Mystery plays
William Shakespeare
19. 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
Meter
Epistolary Novels
Abstraction
Epic
20. 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.
Picaresque
Metaphor
The Renaissance
Epic Simile
21. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Vignette
Rhyme scheme
New Criticism
22. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Epic
Essay
Neo-Platonism
Samuel Johnson
23. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Anadiplosis
Victorian Period
Syllepsis
Elegy
24. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Epic
Theater of the absurd
Stanza
25. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Epic
Aporia
Vignette
Allegory
26. 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
Sublime
Vignette
Chiasmus
New Criticism
27. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Prosody
Alliteration
Anacoluthon
Verisimilitude
28. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Sublime
Strophe
Charles Dickens
The Renaissance
29. To put or publish. Published novel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
terza rima
Sensation
Serialized Novels
30. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Personification
Metaphor
Satire
Victorian Period
31. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
blank verse
Hyperbole
Connotation
32. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Verisimilitude
Personification
Aporia
Free verse
33. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Dramatic Monologue
Augustan Period
Irony
Mystery plays
34. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystification
Dramatic Irony
Anacoluthon
Satire
35. 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.
Bidungsroman
Marginalization
Free verse
Sublime
36. 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
Fashionable novel
Assonance
Cycle
Gothic novels
37. 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'
Anadiplosis
Trace
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
blank verse
38. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Anadiplosis
Essay
Tone
Chiasmus
39. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Villanelle
Daniel Defoe
Metaphor
Rhyme scheme
40. 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)
Free verse
Simile
Alliteration
Neo-Platonism
41. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Sublime
Condition of England novel
Strophe
Sensation
42. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
First Folio
Wilfred Owen
Condition of England novel
Villanelle
43. Augustan Period
Syllepsis
Epistles
The Renaissance
Samuel Johnson
44. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Rhyme scheme
Daniel Defoe
Epic
Epistles
45. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Tetralogy
Charles Dickens
Meter
Ideology
46. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Marginalization
The Renaissance
Ode
Prosody
47. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Enjambment
heroic couple
Abstraction
Tetralogy
48. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Theater of the absurd
blank verse
Prosody
Christopher Marlowe
49. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Foreshadow
Assonance
Aporia
50. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Ode
Alexander Pope
Trace
Soliloquy