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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A group of four works






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






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






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






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






6. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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. 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)






14. 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






15. (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






16. (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






17. 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






18. 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






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






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






21. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






22. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






24. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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'






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






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






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






31. Romantic period;






32. 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.






33. Augustan Period






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






35. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






37. Letters - usually formal






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






39. 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.






40. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






41. 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






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






43. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






44. Augustan Period;






45. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






46. 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






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






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






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






50. 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







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