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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






2. 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






3. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






4. 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.






5. 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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






15. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






16. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






18. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






19. Augustan Period






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






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






22. Letters - usually formal






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






24. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view






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






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






27. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






28. 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






29. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






31. 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.






32. 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'






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






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






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






36. A sentence that changes its grammatical structure in the middle - often suggest disturbance or excitement. For example: 'we had almost reached the finished line and then the race had to have been fixed from the beginning'






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






38. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






39. 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.)






40. 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.






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






42. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






45. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






47. (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






48. 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






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






50. 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