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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






3. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






4. 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.






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. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






7. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






8. 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






9. 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'






10. 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






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






18. 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






19. 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.






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






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






22. Romantic period;






23. 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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






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






32. Romantic Period






33. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






34. 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






35. To put or publish. Published novel






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






44. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






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






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






49. A group of four works






50. Augustan Period;