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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company






2. 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






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






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






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






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






7. Romantic period;






8. A group of four works






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






10. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






11. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






13. 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.






14. 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






15. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






25. 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'






26. 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






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. 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.






35. Letters - usually formal






36. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






38. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






39. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






40. Augustan Period;






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






42. The rhythmic structure of poetry






43. 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.






44. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






45. 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.)






46. 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.






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






48. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






50. 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