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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.






2. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






3. 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.






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






10. 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.)






11. 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'






12. 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.






13. Augustan Period






14. 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






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






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






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






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






19. 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'






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






27. Romantic period;






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






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






30. 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






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






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






33. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






34. 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






35. 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






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






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






39. 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'






40. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






43. 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






44. Augustan Period;






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






46. (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






47. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






49. 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.






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