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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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.






2. Romantic period;






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






4. 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






5. 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






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






7. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






8. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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






11. 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






12. Letters - usually formal






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






14. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






16. 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






17. 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.)






18. 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






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






20. Augustan Period;






21. (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






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






23. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






25. 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






26. 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'






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






28. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. (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






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.






44. 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.






45. 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






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






47. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






49. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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