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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 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
heroic couple
Villanelle
Tetralogy
Beowulf
2. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness
Romantic Period
Vignette
Theater of the absurd
New Criticism
3. 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
Simile
Hyperbole
Epistolary novel
4. (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
Epistolary novel
Gothic novels
The Renaissance
Simile
5. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Chivalry
Fashionable novel
William Shakespeare
Enjambment
6. 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'
Fashionable novel
Irony
Connotation
Chiasmus
7. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Irony
Metaphor
Assonance
Imagery
8. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza
Victorian Period
Tone
Bidungsroman
Rhyme scheme
9. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Tetralogy
Strophe
Chiasmus
Vignette
10. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Aestheticism
Wilfred Owen
Hyperbole
Marginalization
11. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
John Milton
roman a clef
Ode
Aestheticism
12. 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)
Imagery
Sensation
Epithalamium
Simile
13. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Eclogues
Dramatic Monologue
John Milton
14. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Sensation
Syllepsis
Gothic novels
15. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Metaphysical poetry
Romantic Period
First Folio
blank verse
16. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Metaphysical poetry
Aestheticism
Ode
Ideology
17. 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.
Antistrophe
Strophe
Elegy
Epistolary Novels
18. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative
Anacoluthon
Allegory
Epic
Condition of England novel
19. 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
Metaphysical poetry
Anadiplosis
Victorian Period
Ideology
20. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things
Free verse
Abstraction
Samuel Johnson
Dramatic Irony
21. 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
Medieval Period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epic
22. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Syllepsis
Epic
Epistolary Novels
Strophe
23. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Samuel Johnson
John Milton
Charles Dickens
Neo-Platonism
24. Letters - usually formal
Epistles
Beowulf
Fashionable novel
Anadiplosis
25. 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.)
Verisimilitude
John Milton
Picaresque
terza rima
26. (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
Augustan Period
Antistrophe
William Shakespeare
Bidungsroman
27. 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
Augustan Period
Assonance
Picaresque
28. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
Serialized Novels
The Renaissance
Trace
29. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile
Alliteration
Epic Simile
Connotation
Antistrophe
30. 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'
Essay
Epithalamium
Anacoluthon
Rhyming Couplet
31. 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.
Cycle
Neo-Platonism
Foreshadow
Elegy
32. 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.
Aubade
Imagery
Prosody
Panegyric
33. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Personification
Syllepsis
Epic
Alliteration
34. Romantic Period
Vignette
Anacoluthon
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Canon
35. 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
Irony
Marginalization
Iambic pentameter
Ideology
36. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song
Epistolary novel
Epic
Cycle
Stanza
37. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus
Trace
Prosody
Christopher Marlowe
Epic Simile
38. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost
Free indirect discourse
First Folio
Chivalry
John Milton
39. 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
Assonance
Essay
Romantic Period
Dramatic Irony
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
Serialized Novels
heroic couple
Verisimilitude
William Wordsworth
41. Romantic period;
William Wordsworth
Syllepsis
Cycle
Metaphysical poetry
42. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next
Daniel Defoe
Enjambment
Victorian Period
Aubade
43. 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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chivalry
Mystification
Sensation
44. A group of four works
William Shakespeare
Elegy
Tetralogy
Aporia
45. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Alliteration
Sensation
Anacoluthon
Canon
46. 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.
Stream-of-consciousness
Sublime
Panegyric
Free verse
47. 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.
Neo-Platonism
Allegory
First Folio
Epic
48. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word
Harangue
Panegyric
Verisimilitude
Trace
49. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Dramatic Monologue
Epithalamium
Verisimilitude
Beowulf
50. 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.
Picaresque
Sublime
Essay
Free verse