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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






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






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






5. A collection of works on a common theme such as Charlemagne or the Trojan War. Cycles typically represent the work of several different authors brought together into a group. Cycles are often groups of romance narrative.






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






7. 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






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






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






10. Augustan Period






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






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






13. 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






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






15. 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






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






17. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






19. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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 poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night






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






23. A group of four works






24. (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






25. Romantic Period






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






27. 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.






28. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile






34. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.






35. Augustan Period;






36. 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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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






43. 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.)






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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






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