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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House






2. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






10. Augustan Period






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






12. 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.






13. Romantic Period






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






15. 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.)






16. 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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. 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






22. Augustan Period;






23. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






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






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. 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.






29. 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'






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






31. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






33. 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'






34. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






36. (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






37. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






39. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






40. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






42. 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






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






44. 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.






45. 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






46. One of three sections of the Greek dramatic chorus and the Pindaric ode - along with the strophe and epode. These forms may be repeated in sequence within a single ode.






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






48. 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'






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






50. 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)







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