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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold






2. One of three sections of the Greek dramatic chorus and the Pindaric ode - along with the strophe and antistrophe. These forms may be repeated in sequence within a single ode.






3. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things






4. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died






5. 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.






6. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.






7. 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






8. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.






9. 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






10. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word






11. (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






12. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.






13. The rhythmic structure of poetry






14. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning






15. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






16. 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)






17. 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






18. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus






19. Augustan Period






20. 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






21. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.






22. 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.






23. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness






24. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology






25. To put or publish. Published novel






26. 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'






27. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.






28. Heroic poetry with an important subject of crucial national or cultural significance - together with a grand - lofty tone. Many epics tell the story of the founding of a nation or race by means of battle or journey






29. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next






30. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work






31. 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.)






32. 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.






33. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama






34. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






35. 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






36. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration






37. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






38. 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.






39. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






40. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance






41. 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'






42. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative






43. An important critical movement that took hold in the early decades of the twentieth century. It stresses the importance of paying close attention to the literary text as a way to develop critical intelligence






44. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night






45. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text






46. 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






47. 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






48. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






49. Romantic Period






50. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing