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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
William Shakespeare
Sensation
Anacoluthon
Aestheticism
2. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism
Rhyming Couplet
Condition of England novel
Verisimilitude
Alliteration
3. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Christopher Marlowe
Epistolary Novels
Bidungsroman
Rhyme scheme
4. 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.
Trace
Harangue
Chivalry
Rhyme scheme
5. Letters - usually formal
Stream-of-consciousness
Eclogues
Rhyming Couplet
Epistles
6. 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)
Stream-of-consciousness
Trace
Antistrophe
Simile
7. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Eclogues
Dramatic Irony
Stanza
Epistolary Novels
8. The contrast - as in a play - between what a character thinks the truth is - as revealed in a speech or action - and what an audience or reader knows the truth
Aubade
Syllepsis
Beowulf
Dramatic Irony
9. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Allegory
Antistrophe
Serialized Novels
Enjambment
10. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Epistolary Novels
Dramatic Irony
Chiasmus
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
11. 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
Rhyming Couplet
Jane Austen
Assonance
Picaresque
12. 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.
Mystification
Eclogues
Free indirect discourse
Strophe
13. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Cycle
Gothic novels
Trace
Neo-Platonism
14. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Alliteration
Ideology
Serialized Novels
Essay
15. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Jane Austen
Metaphor
Imagery
Villanelle
16. 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.
Epode
Tone
Christopher Marlowe
Antistrophe
17. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Free verse
Chivalry
Epithalamium
Elegy
18. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
John Milton
Mystery plays
Imagery
Iambic pentameter
19. 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.
Gothic novels
Foreshadow
Stanza
Aubade
20. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
terza rima
Dramatic Irony
Serialized Novels
21. 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
Iambic pentameter
Aporia
Ideology
Rhyming Couplet
22. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Allegory
Sublime
New Criticism
Soliloquy
23. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma
Jane Austen
Romantic Period
Imagery
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
24. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.
Epode
Canon
Medieval Period
Stream-of-consciousness
25. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
William Shakespeare
Beowulf
terza rima
Villanelle
26. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Marginalization
Epistolary Novels
Picaresque
Allegory
27. 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
Romantic Period
Villanelle
Hyperbole
First Folio
28. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
terza rima
Beowulf
Satire
Prosody
29. Augustan Period
Samuel Johnson
First Folio
Stream-of-consciousness
Panegyric
30. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Victorian Period
Beowulf
Theater of the absurd
Wilfred Owen
31. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view
Eclogues
Chiasmus
Mystification
Free indirect discourse
32. 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'
Beowulf
Sublime
Anacoluthon
Strophe
33. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Metaphysical poetry
Epic
Epic Simile
Romantic Period
34. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Canon
Metaphysical poetry
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
35. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
New Criticism
Imagery
Christopher Marlowe
Alexander Pope
36. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
John Milton
Allegory
Sensation
Trace
37. 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.
Marginalization
Epithalamium
Free verse
Chiasmus
38. 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
Epic
Stanza
Connotation
Epistolary Novels
39. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Syllepsis
Dramatic Irony
Charles Dickens
Romantic Period
40. 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
terza rima
heroic couple
Allegory
Condition of England novel
41. Romantic Period
Metaphor
Cycle
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mystification
42. 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.
Epithalamium
Strophe
Sublime
Ideology
43. 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.
Anadiplosis
Dramatic Monologue
Mystification
Metaphor
44. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Irony
Verisimilitude
William Wordsworth
Ode
45. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Rhyming Couplet
Picaresque
Abstraction
Personification
46. A novel made up of correspondence between characters
Syllepsis
Strophe
Epistolary novel
Neo-Platonism
47. 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
Epithalamium
Rhyming Couplet
Aubade
Foreshadow
48. A group of four works
Charles Dickens
Ode
Tetralogy
Christopher Marlowe
49. 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
Beowulf
Stream-of-consciousness
Essay
Charles Dickens
50. Augustan Period;
Epode
Alexander Pope
Dramatic Monologue
Abstraction