Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died






2. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text






3. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






4. 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






5. 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






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. 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






10. 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.






11. The rhythmic structure of poetry






12. Augustan Period;






13. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






14. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






15. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view






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.






17. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






18. 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.






19. 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






20. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






21. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama






22. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






23. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.






24. 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






25. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness






26. Augustan Period






27. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






28. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism






29. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology






30. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night






31. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece






32. 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.






33. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things






34. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






35. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next






36. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative






37. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values






38. (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






39. 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






40. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.






41. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






42. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






43. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing






44. 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.






45. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






46. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






47. 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






48. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance






49. 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'






50. 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