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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Allegory
Aubade
Alexander Pope
Harangue
2. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Rhyming Couplet
blank verse
Epistolary novel
3. 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
Wilfred Owen
Essay
Vignette
Beowulf
4. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold
Foreshadow
Epode
Condition of England novel
William Shakespeare
5. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died
Strophe
Epic
Satire
Elegy
6. 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.
Tetralogy
Cycle
Hyperbole
Mystification
7. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Assonance
Free verse
Eclogues
First Folio
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.
Syllepsis
Antistrophe
Prosody
Satire
9. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Verisimilitude
Anadiplosis
Epic Simile
Panegyric
10. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
Panegyric
Epistolary Novels
Mystification
Eclogues
11. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Prosody
Epode
Christopher Marlowe
Epithalamium
12. (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
Epithalamium
Medieval Period
Epistles
Augustan Period
13. 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
Stream-of-consciousness
Personification
Jane Austen
Epic Simile
14. 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.
Medieval Period
Christopher Marlowe
Metaphor
Gothic novels
15. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Aporia
Anacoluthon
Augustan Period
Antistrophe
16. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration
Chiasmus
New Criticism
Prosody
Picaresque
17. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Enjambment
Vignette
Fashionable novel
Tone
18. The rhythmic structure of poetry
roman a clef
Meter
Harangue
Prosody
19. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Strophe
Condition of England novel
Essay
Epic
20. 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
Dramatic Irony
Jane Austen
Medieval Period
Picaresque
21. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Satire
Samuel Johnson
Enjambment
Mystery plays
22. 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'
Christopher Marlowe
Mystification
Anacoluthon
William Wordsworth
23. 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
Irony
Vignette
William Wordsworth
Bidungsroman
24. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Simile
Imagery
Foreshadow
Alliteration
25. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Satire
Irony
Epistolary Novels
Tetralogy
26. Augustan Period;
Tetralogy
Abstraction
Alexander Pope
Strophe
27. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Iambic pentameter
Allegory
Stanza
Neo-Platonism
28. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values
heroic couple
Serialized Novels
Augustan Period
Marginalization
29. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Chivalry
Trace
Epic Simile
Epic
30. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.
Medieval Period
Free indirect discourse
William Shakespeare
Enjambment
31. To put or publish. Published novel
Aporia
Abstraction
Serialized Novels
Ode
32. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Imagery
Beowulf
Abstraction
heroic couple
33. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Enjambment
Epic
blank verse
Imagery
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
Metaphor
Imagery
Gothic novels
Enjambment
35. 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
Sublime
Ideology
Aubade
36. 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)
Christopher Marlowe
Simile
Cycle
Dramatic Irony
37. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Mystification
Fashionable novel
John Milton
Stanza
38. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
Alexander Pope
roman a clef
The Renaissance
Epithalamium
39. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Free indirect discourse
Tone
Sublime
Ode
40. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Daniel Defoe
Sensation
Rhyme scheme
Medieval Period
41. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Epic
Romantic Period
Epithalamium
42. 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
Jane Austen
Neo-Platonism
Connotation
43. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Hyperbole
Allegory
Satire
Epic
44. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
John Milton
Aestheticism
Mystification
William Shakespeare
45. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Abstraction
Ode
Imagery
Theater of the absurd
46. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Free verse
Jane Austen
Anadiplosis
Chiasmus
47. 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
Picaresque
Verisimilitude
Condition of England novel
Dramatic Irony
48. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Eclogues
blank verse
Anacoluthon
Wilfred Owen
49. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Dramatic Monologue
Alexander Pope
Verisimilitude
Epithalamium
50. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Anacoluthon
Trace
Epic
Free verse