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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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
Syllepsis
terza rima
Mystery plays
Hyperbole
2. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Imagery
Assonance
Aubade
terza rima
3. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Free indirect discourse
Strophe
Harangue
Assonance
4. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Neo-Platonism
Enjambment
Syllepsis
William Shakespeare
5. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Christopher Marlowe
terza rima
Epistolary Novels
Chiasmus
6. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Anacoluthon
Chiasmus
Samuel Johnson
Essay
7. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Villanelle
Picaresque
Metaphor
Enjambment
8. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Metaphysical poetry
Satire
Bidungsroman
Personification
9. (1540-1640) public theaters presented plays that celebrated a semifluid social order governed by absolute power. These dramas portrayed any unchecked social mobility that might threaten state stability as the result of personal evil - corruption - an
The Renaissance
Christopher Marlowe
Meter
Prosody
10. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Victorian Period
Free indirect discourse
Christopher Marlowe
Irony
11. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Neo-Platonism
Epithalamium
Ode
Epic
12. 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
Verisimilitude
Samuel Johnson
Trace
Picaresque
13. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Epistles
Alliteration
Satire
Antistrophe
14. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Fashionable novel
Panegyric
Vignette
Alliteration
15. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Free verse
Condition of England novel
Rhyme scheme
William Shakespeare
16. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Vignette
Soliloquy
Theater of the absurd
Harangue
17. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Epic
Foreshadow
Satire
Irony
18. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Serialized Novels
Free indirect discourse
Satire
blank verse
19. 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.
Condition of England novel
Chivalry
Mystery plays
Vignette
20. Augustan Period;
Strophe
Epic Simile
Epistles
Alexander Pope
21. Augustan Period
Ode
Samuel Johnson
William Wordsworth
Charles Dickens
22. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night
Fashionable novel
Irony
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epithalamium
23. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Connotation
Panegyric
Antistrophe
Eclogues
24. 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
Assonance
Ideology
Epithalamium
25. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Epistolary novel
Gothic novels
Epic Simile
terza rima
26. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Christopher Marlowe
Rhyme scheme
Sensation
Connotation
27. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Jane Austen
Serialized Novels
Epistolary novel
Daniel Defoe
28. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Meter
Epistolary novel
Mystification
Tone
29. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Connotation
Abstraction
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Medieval Period
30. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Canon
Bidungsroman
Gothic novels
Aestheticism
31. 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'
Anadiplosis
Abstraction
terza rima
Epithalamium
32. 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.
Epode
Syllepsis
Epic
Villanelle
33. 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
Iambic pentameter
Simile
Epistolary Novels
34. 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
Theater of the absurd
Beowulf
Tetralogy
Gothic novels
35. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Gothic novels
Harangue
Sublime
Alexander Pope
36. 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.
Cycle
roman a clef
Verisimilitude
Romantic Period
37. 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
Theater of the absurd
Wilfred Owen
Stream-of-consciousness
Stanza
38. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
John Milton
Aubade
Vignette
heroic couple
39. 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.
Irony
Stream-of-consciousness
Strophe
Epode
40. Romantic Period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Aporia
Metaphysical poetry
Harangue
41. To put or publish. Published novel
Rhyme scheme
Condition of England novel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Serialized Novels
42. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Aubade
Personification
Allegory
Panegyric
43. Romantic period;
Sublime
William Wordsworth
Aestheticism
Bidungsroman
44. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
Epic
Vignette
Free verse
45. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Harangue
Elegy
Serialized Novels
Dramatic Monologue
46. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Aporia
Stanza
Alliteration
Ode
47. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Mystery plays
Anacoluthon
Epistolary Novels
Augustan Period
48. 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.
Free verse
Condition of England novel
Metaphor
Mystery plays
49. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Metaphor
Mystification
Alliteration
50. 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
Eclogues
Jane Austen
heroic couple
Neo-Platonism