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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. Romantic Period
First Folio
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epistolary novel
Epic
2. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Augustan Period
Jane Austen
Simile
William Wordsworth
3. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Gothic novels
Daniel Defoe
Chivalry
Rhyme scheme
4. 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'
Fashionable novel
Panegyric
Wilfred Owen
Anacoluthon
5. 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
Epode
Epithalamium
Christopher Marlowe
Bidungsroman
6. Augustan Period;
Epic
Ideology
Alexander Pope
Epic
7. 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.
Samuel Johnson
Sublime
Strophe
Mystification
8. 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
blank verse
Charles Dickens
Panegyric
Beowulf
9. 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.
Aporia
Epic
Cycle
Rhyme scheme
10. 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.
Chivalry
Sublime
Rhyme scheme
Allegory
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.
Christopher Marlowe
Epic
Daniel Defoe
Syllepsis
12. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Daniel Defoe
Samuel Johnson
Neo-Platonism
roman a clef
13. 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
Neo-Platonism
The Renaissance
heroic couple
Imagery
14. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House
Medieval Period
Charles Dickens
Dramatic Irony
Soliloquy
15. 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
Meter
Simile
Ideology
terza rima
16. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Alliteration
Free indirect discourse
Fashionable novel
Strophe
17. 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
Essay
roman a clef
Epode
18. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Strophe
roman a clef
Chiasmus
John Milton
19. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines
Soliloquy
Medieval Period
heroic couple
Epistolary Novels
20. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Foreshadow
Villanelle
Irony
First Folio
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.
Bidungsroman
roman a clef
Sublime
Antistrophe
22. Augustan Period
Mystery plays
Samuel Johnson
Aubade
Sensation
23. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Sensation
Metaphysical poetry
Epithalamium
Imagery
24. To put or publish. Published novel
Vignette
Beowulf
Wilfred Owen
Serialized Novels
25. 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)
Dramatic Monologue
William Wordsworth
Simile
The Renaissance
26. 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.
Ode
Augustan Period
Dramatic Monologue
Epistles
27. 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
Metaphor
Foreshadow
Connotation
28. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Condition of England novel
Gothic novels
Epistles
Mystery plays
29. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Epistolary Novels
Harangue
Tetralogy
New Criticism
30. 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
Hyperbole
Assonance
Rhyming Couplet
Enjambment
31. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Metaphysical poetry
Rhyming Couplet
Prosody
Alexander Pope
32. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Foreshadow
Meter
Tone
Sensation
33. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Meter
Metaphysical poetry
Picaresque
Neo-Platonism
34. 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
Gothic novels
Beowulf
Epithalamium
Villanelle
35. 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 Novels
Victorian Period
Essay
Anadiplosis
36. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Imagery
Victorian Period
Charles Dickens
Trace
37. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Vignette
Epode
Samuel Johnson
Epistolary novel
38. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Chivalry
Condition of England novel
Medieval Period
Enjambment
39. 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'
Epistles
Augustan Period
Gothic novels
Irony
40. 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.
Allegory
Foreshadow
Charles Dickens
Antistrophe
41. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Personification
Free verse
Theater of the absurd
Alliteration
42. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Harangue
Aporia
Christopher Marlowe
First Folio
43. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystification
Dramatic Monologue
Epistles
Tone
44. Letters - usually formal
Jane Austen
Epistles
Syllepsis
Neo-Platonism
45. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
Rhyme scheme
Fashionable novel
Prosody
46. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Neo-Platonism
Bidungsroman
Epic Simile
Eclogues
47. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
roman a clef
Soliloquy
Foreshadow
Epistles
48. 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
New Criticism
Tetralogy
Stream-of-consciousness
Antistrophe
49. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Epithalamium
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bidungsroman
Tetralogy
50. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Theater of the absurd
Foreshadow
Aestheticism
Soliloquy
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