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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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.






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






5. Augustan Period;






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company






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






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






16. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






17. 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






18. 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.






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






20. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






21. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






22. (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






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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






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






27. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






28. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






29. 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.






30. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






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






34. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






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






40. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






41. 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






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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'






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






49. 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)






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