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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






2. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






3. 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






4. 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.






5. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






6. 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.






7. A group of four works






8. 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.)






9. 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.






10. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision






11. 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






12. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






14. 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.






15. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






16. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade






17. 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.






18. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






19. 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






20. 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'






21. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






22. (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






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






24. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






25. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.






26. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House






27. 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






28. Letters - usually formal






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






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






31. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues






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






33. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it






34. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company






35. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






36. 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.






37. (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






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






40. 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






41. 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






42. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality






43. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece






44. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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.






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






48. Romantic period;






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






50. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other