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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues






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






3. (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






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






5. 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






6. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. Romantic period;






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






12. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






13. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






16. 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.






17. Romantic Period






18. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






19. 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.)






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






21. 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






22. 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






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






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






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






26. A group of four works






27. 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.






28. 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.






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






30. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






31. 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.






32. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






33. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






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






37. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






38. 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






39. 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






40. 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






41. Augustan Period






42. 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






43. 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.






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






45. 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'






46. Novels about gruesome doings and supernatural horrors - usually set far away and long ago. The form emerged during the eighteenth century but gained popularity and respectability in the nineteenth - as the imagination in literature came to be more hi






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






48. 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.






49. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






50. 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