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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. To put or publish. Published novel
Chiasmus
Antistrophe
Serialized Novels
Daniel Defoe
2. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Ode
Alexander Pope
Aestheticism
Verisimilitude
3. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
First Folio
Mystification
Assonance
4. 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.
Tone
Strophe
Abstraction
terza rima
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
Ideology
Harangue
Daniel Defoe
Dramatic Irony
6. 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.)
New Criticism
Sublime
terza rima
Epistles
7. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
blank verse
Antistrophe
Beowulf
Prosody
8. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Metaphor
Free indirect discourse
Rhyming Couplet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9. 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.
Metaphor
Eclogues
Stream-of-consciousness
Epistolary Novels
10. 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
New Criticism
Rhyming Couplet
Satire
Antistrophe
11. 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
Assonance
Epic
Condition of England novel
Ideology
12. 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.
Enjambment
The Renaissance
Epic
Hyperbole
13. 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.
Samuel Johnson
Epode
Aporia
terza rima
14. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Abstraction
Epithalamium
Assonance
Anacoluthon
15. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Epic Simile
Romantic Period
Meter
Rhyme scheme
16. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade
Mystification
Enjambment
Harangue
Bidungsroman
17. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Metaphysical poetry
Wilfred Owen
Hyperbole
Tone
18. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Panegyric
Foreshadow
New Criticism
Ode
19. 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.
Dramatic Irony
Victorian Period
Dramatic Monologue
Medieval Period
20. 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
Metaphor
William Wordsworth
Panegyric
21. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Condition of England novel
Charles Dickens
Alexander Pope
New Criticism
22. 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'
The Renaissance
Picaresque
Vignette
Anadiplosis
23. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Stream-of-consciousness
Iambic pentameter
Verisimilitude
roman a clef
24. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Beowulf
Antistrophe
Christopher Marlowe
Epistolary Novels
25. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Rhyming Couplet
Ode
Bidungsroman
Neo-Platonism
26. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Epic Simile
Samuel Johnson
Epistolary novel
Prosody
27. 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
Alliteration
Allegory
Bidungsroman
blank verse
28. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues
Samuel Johnson
Sensation
Foreshadow
Bidungsroman
29. Augustan Period
Allegory
Anadiplosis
Samuel Johnson
Canon
30. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Stream-of-consciousness
Enjambment
New Criticism
31. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Epic
Verisimilitude
Meter
Anadiplosis
32. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Epistolary novel
Prosody
roman a clef
Jane Austen
33. 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
The Renaissance
Picaresque
Ode
Beowulf
34. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
Marginalization
Eclogues
John Milton
Daniel Defoe
35. Letters - usually formal
Free indirect discourse
Wilfred Owen
Aubade
Epistles
36. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.
Victorian Period
Trace
Dramatic Monologue
Epistles
37. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders
Stanza
Soliloquy
Daniel Defoe
Panegyric
38. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Romantic Period
Stream-of-consciousness
Aestheticism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
39. A group of four works
Tetralogy
Trace
Free indirect discourse
Medieval Period
40. 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
Ode
Assonance
The Renaissance
Hyperbole
41. 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.
Medieval Period
terza rima
Antistrophe
Sublime
42. 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
Trace
Connotation
heroic couple
Eclogues
43. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Epistles
Foreshadow
Canon
Elegy
44. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
John Milton
Connotation
Ode
Elegy
45. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Charles Dickens
Allegory
Imagery
Medieval Period
46. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning
Soliloquy
Connotation
Prosody
Free indirect discourse
47. (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
Medieval Period
Victorian Period
Augustan Period
Anacoluthon
48. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Enjambment
Personification
Chivalry
William Shakespeare
49. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
roman a clef
Chiasmus
The Renaissance
Eclogues
50. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Picaresque
Aubade
Mystification
Cycle