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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance






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






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






4. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






14. To put or publish. Published novel






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






16. 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.






17. (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






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






19. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






21. 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.






22. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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






27. 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.






28. Letters - usually formal






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






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






31. 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'






32. Romantic Period






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






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






35. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






36. 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)






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






38. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






39. Novel a modernist form that puts a story together by tracing the thoughts and feelings of its characters rather than through the voice of a detached narrator






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






47. Augustan Period






48. 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






49. 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.






50. 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.