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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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.
Antistrophe
Dramatic Irony
Stanza
Strophe
2. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Mystery plays
Tone
Stanza
Panegyric
3. 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
Epistolary Novels
Trace
Mystery plays
New Criticism
4. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Simile
Bidungsroman
Fashionable novel
Enjambment
5. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Chiasmus
Epithalamium
terza rima
Canon
6. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Abstraction
William Wordsworth
Alliteration
Wilfred Owen
7. (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
Alliteration
Samuel Johnson
Epode
Augustan Period
8. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Aestheticism
Epode
Syllepsis
Samuel Johnson
9. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
terza rima
Chivalry
Epistolary novel
Augustan Period
10. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Tone
roman a clef
Marginalization
Theater of the absurd
11. 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)
Theater of the absurd
Simile
Antistrophe
Fashionable novel
12. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
Christopher Marlowe
Mystification
The Renaissance
13. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Mystery plays
Tone
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Elegy
14. 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'
Epistolary novel
Connotation
Anadiplosis
Bidungsroman
15. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Aporia
New Criticism
Rhyming Couplet
Allegory
16. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Daniel Defoe
Chivalry
Epic
17. Romantic period;
Vignette
Theater of the absurd
William Wordsworth
Epistolary Novels
18. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Harangue
Aubade
Trace
Stanza
19. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Neo-Platonism
Epistolary novel
Ideology
Trace
20. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Augustan Period
Charles Dickens
Satire
Daniel Defoe
21. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Picaresque
Chiasmus
Charles Dickens
Medieval Period
22. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Medieval Period
Dramatic Monologue
Marginalization
Eclogues
23. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
Condition of England novel
Syllepsis
Rhyming Couplet
24. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Irony
Metaphysical poetry
Ideology
Epode
25. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
William Shakespeare
Epistolary Novels
Daniel Defoe
Rhyme scheme
26. 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.
Iambic pentameter
Medieval Period
Sublime
Aporia
27. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Vignette
Prosody
Anadiplosis
Elegy
28. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Tetralogy
Daniel Defoe
Satire
Marginalization
29. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Simile
Christopher Marlowe
Elegy
Anacoluthon
30. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Gothic novels
Aporia
Vignette
Mystery plays
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'
Rhyme scheme
Fashionable novel
Anacoluthon
Augustan Period
32. Augustan Period
Gothic novels
Romantic Period
Anadiplosis
Samuel Johnson
33. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Meter
William Shakespeare
Romantic Period
Mystification
34. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Stanza
Wilfred Owen
Epistolary novel
Essay
35. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Epic
Free indirect discourse
Aubade
Vignette
36. 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
Fashionable novel
blank verse
Jane Austen
Epic
37. 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'
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Irony
Stream-of-consciousness
Free verse
38. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Epic
Prosody
Epic
39. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Simile
Mystery plays
Tone
William Shakespeare
40. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Ideology
Panegyric
Marginalization
Ode
41. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Rhyming Couplet
William Shakespeare
Aubade
42. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Sublime
Imagery
Anacoluthon
Christopher Marlowe
43. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Harangue
Verisimilitude
Wilfred Owen
Trace
44. 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
Connotation
Marginalization
Imagery
Gothic novels
45. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
The Renaissance
Anadiplosis
Harangue
Aestheticism
46. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
New Criticism
Simile
Epithalamium
John Milton
47. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Panegyric
Alexander Pope
Personification
Sensation
48. A group of four works
Chiasmus
Ode
Tetralogy
Iambic pentameter
49. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Abstraction
Free verse
Elegy
Eclogues
50. 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.
Epistolary novel
Christopher Marlowe
Epode
terza rima