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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company
Personification
First Folio
terza rima
Wilfred Owen
2. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other
Satire
Alliteration
roman a clef
John Milton
3. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.
Dramatic Monologue
Wilfred Owen
Metaphysical poetry
Meter
4. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant
Fashionable novel
Bidungsroman
Villanelle
Personification
5. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality
Samuel Johnson
Ode
Condition of England novel
Aestheticism
6. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama
Elegy
Meter
Anadiplosis
blank verse
7. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision
Harangue
Metaphor
Satire
Allegory
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
Personification
heroic couple
Dramatic Irony
Marginalization
9. 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'
Enjambment
Aubade
roman a clef
Anadiplosis
10. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing
Essay
Villanelle
Eclogues
The Renaissance
11. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it
Soliloquy
Christopher Marlowe
Augustan Period
Mystification
12. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.
Mystification
Irony
Mystery plays
Abstraction
13. A group of four works
Charles Dickens
Tetralogy
Bidungsroman
Free verse
14. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.
Ideology
Chiasmus
Epithalamium
Dramatic Irony
15. 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.
Mystification
Chivalry
Free verse
Villanelle
16. A poem of fixed form - French in origin - consisting usually of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza and having only two rhymes throughout
Romantic Period
Villanelle
Irony
Bidungsroman
17. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names
terza rima
Rhyming Couplet
roman a clef
William Wordsworth
18. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds
John Milton
heroic couple
Rhyme scheme
Eclogues
19. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen
The Renaissance
Samuel Johnson
Verisimilitude
20. 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
Aporia
Picaresque
The Renaissance
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.
Chiasmus
heroic couple
Dramatic Irony
Ode
22. 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'
Rhyme scheme
Irony
Gothic novels
Serialized Novels
23. 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.
Tone
Enjambment
Meter
Dramatic Monologue
24. (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
Condition of England novel
Augustan Period
The Renaissance
Iambic pentameter
25. 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
Iambic pentameter
Trace
Beowulf
Epode
26. 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
Strophe
Panegyric
Mystery plays
27. 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'
blank verse
Anacoluthon
Aestheticism
William Wordsworth
28. 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
First Folio
Harangue
Panegyric
29. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.
Anacoluthon
Personification
Mystery plays
Syllepsis
30. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative
Imagery
The Renaissance
Serialized Novels
Marginalization
31. 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
Epic
First Folio
Beowulf
32. Romantic Period
Epistles
Daniel Defoe
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Irony
33. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work
Satire
Rhyming Couplet
Iambic pentameter
Tone
34. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece
Gothic novels
Samuel Johnson
Victorian Period
Panegyric
35. The rhythmic structure of poetry
Harangue
Meter
Aubade
Daniel Defoe
36. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text
Anadiplosis
New Criticism
Aporia
Panegyric
37. Romantic period;
terza rima
Epic Simile
William Wordsworth
Dramatic Monologue
38. 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.
Hyperbole
Epic
Sublime
Daniel Defoe
39. 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
Marginalization
Chivalry
Hyperbole
40. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc
Vignette
Tetralogy
Medieval Period
Ode
41. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance
Aestheticism
roman a clef
Verisimilitude
New Criticism
42. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.
Personification
Marginalization
Simile
Abstraction
43. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.
Antistrophe
Stream-of-consciousness
Aporia
Epistolary Novels
44. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.
Mystery plays
Prosody
Allegory
Harangue
45. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology
Epic
Antistrophe
Neo-Platonism
Canon
46. 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.
Verisimilitude
Free indirect discourse
Cycle
John Milton
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.
Christopher Marlowe
Free verse
Personification
Harangue
48. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other
Dramatic Monologue
Aestheticism
Strophe
Assonance
49. 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
Allegory
Epic
heroic couple
Romantic Period
50. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism
Romantic Period
Imagery
roman a clef
Eclogues