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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Harangue
New Criticism
Aubade
Ideology
2. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Epistles
Rhyme scheme
Assonance
Imagery
3. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Anadiplosis
Essay
Chivalry
Ideology
4. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Jane Austen
Alexander Pope
Free indirect discourse
Epistolary Novels
5. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Sensation
Foreshadow
Epic
Chiasmus
6. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Anadiplosis
Victorian Period
Christopher Marlowe
Syllepsis
7. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
roman a clef
Jane Austen
Dramatic Monologue
8. 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.
Tone
Epic
Sensation
Eclogues
9. 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
Alexander Pope
Medieval Period
Cycle
Rhyming Couplet
10. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Irony
Abstraction
Satire
Soliloquy
11. 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.
Mystery plays
Daniel Defoe
New Criticism
Sublime
12. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Bidungsroman
Enjambment
13. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Aporia
Beowulf
Romantic Period
Stream-of-consciousness
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'
Iambic pentameter
Connotation
Anadiplosis
Free indirect discourse
15. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Soliloquy
Prosody
Canon
Chivalry
16. 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.
Epistles
Imagery
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Strophe
17. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Personification
Tetralogy
Chiasmus
Tone
18. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Mystery plays
Anacoluthon
Alliteration
19. 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
Gothic novels
Dramatic Monologue
Epithalamium
Mystery plays
20. 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
Epithalamium
Metaphysical poetry
Stream-of-consciousness
The Renaissance
21. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Elegy
Daniel Defoe
Verisimilitude
William Wordsworth
22. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Epic Simile
Romantic Period
Soliloquy
Vignette
23. A poem of fixed form - French in origin - consisting usually of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza and having only two rhymes throughout
Villanelle
Samuel Johnson
Foreshadow
Vignette
24. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Picaresque
heroic couple
Cycle
Charles Dickens
25. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Panegyric
Enjambment
Allegory
26. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Panegyric
Elegy
Neo-Platonism
Marginalization
27. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Victorian Period
Augustan Period
Prosody
28. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
blank verse
Chiasmus
Daniel Defoe
29. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Harangue
Soliloquy
Chivalry
Metaphysical poetry
30. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
blank verse
Rhyme scheme
Gothic novels
Foreshadow
31. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Vignette
Marginalization
Stanza
Anadiplosis
32. Letters - usually formal
blank verse
Tetralogy
New Criticism
Epistles
33. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Meter
Epistolary novel
Fashionable novel
Sensation
34. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
roman a clef
Stanza
Condition of England novel
Simile
35. 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.)
Fashionable novel
Samuel Johnson
Ideology
terza rima
36. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Augustan Period
Epic Simile
Neo-Platonism
Personification
37. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Trace
Daniel Defoe
Metaphor
Free indirect discourse
38. 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'
Theater of the absurd
Sensation
Epistles
Anacoluthon
39. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
William Shakespeare
Mystification
First Folio
Ideology
40. 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
Hyperbole
Beowulf
Ideology
Panegyric
41. 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)
Beowulf
Jane Austen
Anacoluthon
Simile
42. 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
Hyperbole
Trace
Epode
43. 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
Iambic pentameter
Epistolary novel
Samuel Johnson
Picaresque
44. Romantic Period
Personification
Allegory
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Metaphor
45. 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
John Milton
Gothic novels
Ideology
Medieval Period
46. Augustan Period
Samuel Johnson
Medieval Period
Rhyme scheme
Abstraction
47. 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.
Strophe
John Milton
Chiasmus
Free verse
48. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Aubade
Augustan Period
Mystification
Ode
49. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Meter
Imagery
Bidungsroman
Picaresque
50. 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.
Epic
Allegory
Tetralogy
Antistrophe
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