English Literature CLEP questions with correct answers

heroic couple Correct Answer-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 they intend") terza rima -(tert′sə rē′mə) Correct Answer-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.) blank verse Correct Answer-unrhymed verse; esp., unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line, as in Elizabethan drama Iambic pentameter Correct Answer-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:Ĭn sóoth,/Ĭ knów/nŏt whý/Ĭ ám/sŏ sád.Ĭt wéa/riĕs mé;/yŏu sáy/ĭt wéa/riĕs yóu Villanelle Correct Answer-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 Dramatic Monologue Correct Answer-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.