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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






4. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






5. 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






6. Augustan Period;






7. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






16. Early Medieval Period; The protagonist of the poem. Beowulf is a Geatish hero who fights the monster Grendel - Grendel's mother - and a fire-breathing dragon. Beowulf's exploits prove him to be the strongest - ablest warrior of his time. In his youth






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






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






20. Romantic Period






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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)






27. (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






28. 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.






29. 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'






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






31. 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.






32. 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.)






33. 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.






34. 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






35. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






37. A group of four works






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






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






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






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






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






44. Letters - usually formal






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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