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CLEP English Literature All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Anadiplosis
Harangue
Iambic pentameter
2. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Personification
Epistles
Epistolary Novels
First Folio
3. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Medieval Period
Meter
Marginalization
Free indirect discourse
4. Augustan Period;
Charles Dickens
Alexander Pope
Dramatic Irony
New Criticism
5. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Antistrophe
Condition of England novel
Daniel Defoe
Enjambment
6. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Marginalization
Chiasmus
Bidungsroman
Eclogues
7. 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.
The Renaissance
Condition of England novel
Rhyming Couplet
Antistrophe
8. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Rhyme scheme
Tone
Epic Simile
Assonance
9. Romantic period;
roman a clef
William Wordsworth
Trace
Dramatic Irony
10. 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
Prosody
Elegy
Satire
New Criticism
11. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Cycle
Assonance
terza rima
12. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Cycle
Fashionable novel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Essay
13. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
The Renaissance
Alexander Pope
Aestheticism
Abstraction
14. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Dramatic Monologue
Essay
Prosody
Epic
15. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Stanza
Rhyming Couplet
Satire
Mystification
16. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Sensation
Strophe
Mystification
Aporia
17. 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
Alliteration
Elegy
Strophe
Epic
18. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Beowulf
Wilfred Owen
Epic
Epithalamium
19. Letters - usually formal
Imagery
Epistles
Ideology
Iambic pentameter
20. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Panegyric
Mystification
Villanelle
Samuel Johnson
21. 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
Epic Simile
Theater of the absurd
Epistolary novel
Stream-of-consciousness
22. 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
Stream-of-consciousness
Panegyric
Ideology
Tone
23. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
roman a clef
Connotation
Prosody
Ideology
24. 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
Tone
roman a clef
Epithalamium
25. To put or publish. Published novel
Theater of the absurd
Connotation
Serialized Novels
Vignette
26. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Alliteration
Samuel Johnson
Stream-of-consciousness
Metaphysical poetry
27. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Condition of England novel
New Criticism
Stanza
Iambic pentameter
28. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Aporia
Irony
Epic Simile
Marginalization
29. 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.
Cycle
Bidungsroman
Strophe
Romantic Period
30. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Epistolary novel
Chiasmus
Allegory
New Criticism
31. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Satire
New Criticism
Epistolary novel
Samuel Johnson
32. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Imagery
Victorian Period
blank verse
Antistrophe
33. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Alliteration
heroic couple
Soliloquy
Aporia
34. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Anadiplosis
Romantic Period
Enjambment
Epode
35. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
Verisimilitude
Ideology
Metaphysical poetry
36. 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
Stanza
Essay
Meter
37. The contrast - as in a play - between what a character thinks the truth is - as revealed in a speech or action - and what an audience or reader knows the truth
Epistles
Free indirect discourse
Dramatic Irony
Fashionable novel
38. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Medieval Period
Vignette
heroic couple
Chivalry
39. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Alliteration
Vignette
Metaphysical poetry
Dramatic Monologue
40. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Assonance
Stanza
blank verse
Serialized Novels
41. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Canon
Tetralogy
William Wordsworth
Epic
42. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Mystery plays
Panegyric
Villanelle
The Renaissance
43. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
heroic couple
Epistles
Eclogues
Elegy
44. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Rhyme scheme
Ode
Condition of England novel
Panegyric
45. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Anadiplosis
Essay
Christopher Marlowe
Strophe
46. 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
Bidungsroman
Assonance
Theater of the absurd
Verisimilitude
47. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Daniel Defoe
Neo-Platonism
Theater of the absurd
Panegyric
48. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Ode
Meter
Aestheticism
Theater of the absurd
49. 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
Abstraction
Picaresque
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Villanelle
50. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Gothic novels
Metaphor
roman a clef
Syllepsis