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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






2. 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






3. 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'






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






5. 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.






6. 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






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






8. Romantic Period






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






10. 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.






11. 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






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






13. 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.






14. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.






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






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






17. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc






18. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song






19. 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.






20. 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)






21. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






22. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






23. 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.






24. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






25. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






26. 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






27. 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.






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






29. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values






30. 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.






31. Augustan Period






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






33. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






34. 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






35. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






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






39. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism






40. The rhythmic structure of poetry






41. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






43. 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.






44. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






45. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold






46. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.






47. Letters - usually formal






48. 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






49. 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.)






50. (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