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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
Picaresque
Medieval Period
Aestheticism
Hyperbole
2. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Connotation
Canon
Essay
3. 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
Chiasmus
Anacoluthon
Tone
Picaresque
4. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Simile
Assonance
Epistolary novel
Personification
5. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Ode
Anacoluthon
Canon
Metaphor
6. 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.
Christopher Marlowe
Connotation
Anacoluthon
Dramatic Monologue
7. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Jane Austen
Sensation
Vignette
Irony
8. (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
Wilfred Owen
heroic couple
Connotation
The Renaissance
9. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Aporia
blank verse
Victorian Period
Antistrophe
10. 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
Neo-Platonism
Ideology
Stanza
Bidungsroman
11. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Panegyric
Prosody
Christopher Marlowe
Alliteration
12. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Trace
Iambic pentameter
Eclogues
Mystery plays
13. 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'
Meter
Stream-of-consciousness
Sensation
Anadiplosis
14. Letters - usually formal
Epistles
Imagery
Mystery plays
roman a clef
15. 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
Hyperbole
Ode
Medieval Period
16. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Hyperbole
Vignette
Villanelle
Marginalization
17. 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
Aestheticism
Connotation
Imagery
Ideology
18. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Personification
Epithalamium
Hyperbole
Romantic Period
19. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Cycle
Ideology
Sensation
Christopher Marlowe
20. A group of four works
Epithalamium
Dramatic Irony
Wilfred Owen
Tetralogy
21. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Anadiplosis
Soliloquy
Wilfred Owen
Essay
22. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Stanza
Gothic novels
Alexander Pope
23. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Chiasmus
Ideology
Enjambment
Neo-Platonism
24. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Satire
Serialized Novels
Irony
Theater of the absurd
25. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Chivalry
roman a clef
Assonance
Harangue
26. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Satire
Alliteration
Anadiplosis
Imagery
27. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Aestheticism
Connotation
Anadiplosis
Romantic Period
28. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Free verse
Elegy
Connotation
Aporia
29. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Epic
terza rima
Alliteration
30. 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
terza rima
Epithalamium
roman a clef
31. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Epistolary Novels
New Criticism
Neo-Platonism
Free verse
32. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Iambic pentameter
Charles Dickens
Meter
Rhyme scheme
33. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Epic
Enjambment
Ideology
Daniel Defoe
34. 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.
blank verse
Essay
Cycle
Rhyme scheme
35. 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)
Hyperbole
John Milton
Verisimilitude
Simile
36. 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.)
Metaphor
Verisimilitude
terza rima
Theater of the absurd
37. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Satire
Bidungsroman
Rhyme scheme
Antistrophe
38. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Condition of England novel
Beowulf
John Milton
Trace
39. Augustan Period
Satire
Trace
Irony
Samuel Johnson
40. Romantic period;
Epode
Stanza
Canon
William Wordsworth
41. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Jane Austen
Tetralogy
Victorian Period
The Renaissance
42. 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
Gothic novels
Rhyming Couplet
Meter
Assonance
43. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Iambic pentameter
Bidungsroman
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
44. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Satire
Bidungsroman
Elegy
Aestheticism
45. 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
Satire
Enjambment
Iambic pentameter
New Criticism
46. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Panegyric
Stream-of-consciousness
Simile
47. 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.
Alliteration
Augustan Period
Wilfred Owen
Free verse
48. 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.
Marginalization
Sensation
Strophe
Jane Austen
49. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Imagery
John Milton
Epic Simile
Wilfred Owen
50. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Epic Simile
Harangue
Neo-Platonism
Tetralogy