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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Daniel Defoe
Antistrophe
First Folio
Iambic pentameter
2. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Sublime
Free indirect discourse
Romantic Period
3. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
blank verse
Metaphysical poetry
Mystery plays
Beowulf
4. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Chivalry
Metaphysical poetry
Jane Austen
Alliteration
5. 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)
Simile
Romantic Period
Personification
Strophe
6. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Picaresque
roman a clef
Harangue
7. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Syllepsis
William Shakespeare
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jane Austen
8. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Charles Dickens
Imagery
Essay
Aporia
9. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Panegyric
Rhyming Couplet
Alexander Pope
10. 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
blank verse
Gothic novels
Metaphysical poetry
Harangue
11. An important narrative form that emerges at the threshold between orality and literacy. They are written down at some point after a period of oral development. Beowulf is considered an epic.
Marginalization
Epic
Epistolary novel
Simile
12. 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
Marginalization
Villanelle
Aporia
New Criticism
13. 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.
Imagery
Condition of England novel
Abstraction
Cycle
14. 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
Mystery plays
Mystification
Personification
15. (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 indirect discourse
Aporia
Victorian Period
Dramatic Irony
16. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Neo-Platonism
Canon
Gothic novels
heroic couple
17. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Free verse
Essay
roman a clef
Anacoluthon
18. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
roman a clef
Verisimilitude
Epode
Satire
19. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Picaresque
Mystification
Fashionable novel
Allegory
20. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Syllepsis
Antistrophe
Canon
Sensation
21. 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.
Stream-of-consciousness
John Milton
Sublime
Augustan Period
22. Romantic Period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Aubade
Rhyme scheme
Harangue
23. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tone
Dramatic Monologue
Sensation
Canon
24. 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.
Dramatic Monologue
William Shakespeare
Assonance
Syllepsis
25. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Mystification
Daniel Defoe
New Criticism
Condition of England novel
26. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
William Wordsworth
Imagery
Theater of the absurd
Fashionable novel
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.
Chiasmus
Gothic novels
Anacoluthon
Chivalry
28. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Epode
Dramatic Irony
Tone
Abstraction
29. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Daniel Defoe
Satire
Christopher Marlowe
Fashionable novel
30. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Bidungsroman
Canon
Aestheticism
31. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Epic
Cycle
Christopher Marlowe
Satire
32. A verse form of Italian origin - made up of tercets - the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba - bcb - cdc - etc.)
Free indirect discourse
terza rima
Canon
Simile
33. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
Aporia
Medieval Period
Theater of the absurd
34. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Condition of England novel
Rhyme scheme
Foreshadow
Gothic novels
35. 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.
Antistrophe
Dramatic Irony
Jane Austen
Epic
36. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Neo-Platonism
Alliteration
Assonance
Sensation
37. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Harangue
Vignette
Stanza
Epistolary Novels
38. 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.
Tetralogy
Aubade
Epode
Strophe
39. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Strophe
Iambic pentameter
blank verse
Canon
40. 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
Satire
Samuel Johnson
Picaresque
Alexander Pope
41. 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
Personification
Picaresque
Iambic pentameter
Cycle
42. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Chiasmus
Trace
Epithalamium
Gothic novels
43. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Panegyric
Chivalry
Trace
Foreshadow
44. Augustan Period
Jane Austen
Samuel Johnson
First Folio
Mystification
45. (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
Epithalamium
Rhyming Couplet
Vignette
46. 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.
William Wordsworth
Metaphor
Tetralogy
Assonance
47. Letters - usually formal
Jane Austen
Satire
Aestheticism
Epistles
48. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Dramatic Irony
John Milton
Connotation
Daniel Defoe
49. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Mystification
Irony
Connotation
Enjambment
50. 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'
Epic Simile
Syllepsis
Anacoluthon
Ode