English Literature CLEP Exam
Questions and Answers10
Old English - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written to foster bravery and
promote heroic deeds.
Middle English - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written to promote knightly
ideals that stabilized social hierarchy.
Renaissance - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written to entertain through
stage plays, comedies, and histories.
Augustan Period - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written for the emerging
middle class. Manuscripts were made accessible through the invention of the printing press.
Romantic Period - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written mainly in flowery
poetry while promoting individualism.
Victorian Period - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written for a secularized
society.
Modern Period - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written to produce literary
"art". New criticism established.
Postmodern Period - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written for ideological
aims.
, Close Reading - ANSWERS-Following a text closely and making your own decisions about that
text.
Denotation - ANSWERS-The accepted meaning of a word.
Connotation - ANSWERS-The significance of a word through association.
Tone - ANSWERS-The author's mood in a text.
Diction - ANSWERS-Choice of words or utterance.
Imagery - ANSWERS-______ enables writers to show events and relationships.
Concrete Term - ANSWERS-A term for anything tangible.
Figurative Language - ANSWERS-Language that is meant to mean something other than what it
literally means.
Metaphor - ANSWERS-A term that is used figuratively to represent something that isn't actually
there.
Simile - ANSWERS-A figurative comparison between two things.
Canon - ANSWERS-English Standard. Helps preserve quality. Contains the greatest literary
achievements in the western world.
Mystification - ANSWERS-The process of denying political values by misrepresenting them as
natural ideals.
Questions and Answers10
Old English - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written to foster bravery and
promote heroic deeds.
Middle English - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written to promote knightly
ideals that stabilized social hierarchy.
Renaissance - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written to entertain through
stage plays, comedies, and histories.
Augustan Period - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written for the emerging
middle class. Manuscripts were made accessible through the invention of the printing press.
Romantic Period - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written mainly in flowery
poetry while promoting individualism.
Victorian Period - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written for a secularized
society.
Modern Period - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written to produce literary
"art". New criticism established.
Postmodern Period - ANSWERS-A time in history where literature was written for ideological
aims.
, Close Reading - ANSWERS-Following a text closely and making your own decisions about that
text.
Denotation - ANSWERS-The accepted meaning of a word.
Connotation - ANSWERS-The significance of a word through association.
Tone - ANSWERS-The author's mood in a text.
Diction - ANSWERS-Choice of words or utterance.
Imagery - ANSWERS-______ enables writers to show events and relationships.
Concrete Term - ANSWERS-A term for anything tangible.
Figurative Language - ANSWERS-Language that is meant to mean something other than what it
literally means.
Metaphor - ANSWERS-A term that is used figuratively to represent something that isn't actually
there.
Simile - ANSWERS-A figurative comparison between two things.
Canon - ANSWERS-English Standard. Helps preserve quality. Contains the greatest literary
achievements in the western world.
Mystification - ANSWERS-The process of denying political values by misrepresenting them as
natural ideals.
