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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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
Neo-Platonism
Enjambment
Dramatic Irony
Trace
2. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Samuel Johnson
Aestheticism
Essay
3. 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.
New Criticism
Chivalry
Gothic novels
Personification
4. 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
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prosody
Epic
John Milton
5. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
heroic couple
Fashionable novel
Eclogues
Daniel Defoe
6. 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
Jane Austen
Condition of England novel
Christopher Marlowe
7. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Panegyric
Satire
Connotation
Essay
8. 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
Condition of England novel
Enjambment
Free indirect discourse
9. 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
Essay
Tetralogy
Ideology
Allegory
10. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
Satire
Mystification
Stanza
11. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Tone
heroic couple
Mystification
Alexander Pope
12. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Strophe
Elegy
Foreshadow
Jane Austen
13. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Antistrophe
John Milton
Samuel Johnson
Alexander Pope
14. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Rhyme scheme
Anadiplosis
Essay
blank verse
15. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Chiasmus
Aubade
Panegyric
William Shakespeare
16. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Epic
Stanza
Vignette
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
17. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Metaphor
Prosody
Tetralogy
Satire
18. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Stanza
Anacoluthon
Simile
Charles Dickens
19. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Ideology
Allegory
Medieval Period
Enjambment
20. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Tetralogy
Free verse
Daniel Defoe
Meter
21. 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)
Epic Simile
Epic
terza rima
Simile
22. 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.
Augustan Period
Epistolary Novels
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dramatic Monologue
23. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Epic Simile
Panegyric
Trace
Irony
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
Antistrophe
Theater of the absurd
Gothic novels
Stream-of-consciousness
25. (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
Dramatic Irony
Antistrophe
Epithalamium
26. 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'
Irony
William Wordsworth
Dramatic Irony
Alliteration
27. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Stream-of-consciousness
Chiasmus
Essay
Serialized Novels
28. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Rhyme scheme
Tone
Essay
Anadiplosis
29. 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'
Stanza
Anacoluthon
Eclogues
Aubade
30. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Fashionable novel
Personification
Chiasmus
Sensation
31. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Foreshadow
Metaphysical poetry
Mystery plays
Aubade
32. Augustan Period
Samuel Johnson
Charles Dickens
Theater of the absurd
The Renaissance
33. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Rhyme scheme
Assonance
First Folio
Harangue
34. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Epistolary novel
Theater of the absurd
roman a clef
Verisimilitude
35. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
Epic
Theater of the absurd
Harangue
36. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Panegyric
Gothic novels
Jane Austen
Epic
37. 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.)
Vignette
Syllepsis
terza rima
Imagery
38. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Jane Austen
Theater of the absurd
Chivalry
Mystification
39. 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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Meter
Strophe
Metaphor
40. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Picaresque
Abstraction
Victorian Period
Elegy
41. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Alliteration
Verisimilitude
Medieval Period
William Wordsworth
42. 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.
Hyperbole
Antistrophe
New Criticism
Ode
43. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
New Criticism
Metaphysical poetry
blank verse
Satire
44. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Epic
Medieval Period
Epic Simile
Personification
45. 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
Epistolary Novels
Hyperbole
Assonance
Anacoluthon
46. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Mystery plays
Panegyric
Medieval Period
Allegory
47. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Foreshadow
Syllepsis
Meter
Simile
48. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Stream-of-consciousness
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Harangue
Romantic Period
49. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Stanza
Metaphysical poetry
Neo-Platonism
Wilfred Owen
50. 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'
Neo-Platonism
Syllepsis
Anadiplosis
William Shakespeare