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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. Letters - usually formal






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






4. 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.






5. 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






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






7. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






8. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






9. A group of four works






10. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






11. 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






12. 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.)






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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. 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






19. 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.






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






21. 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






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






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






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






25. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






27. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






28. 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






29. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






30. A sentence that changes its grammatical structure in the middle - often suggest disturbance or excitement. For example: 'we had almost reached the finished line and then the race had to have been fixed from the beginning'






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






37. 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.






38. 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)






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. (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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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