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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






2. 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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. (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






9. Augustan Period;






10. 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.






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






12. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






13. 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






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. (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






19. 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






20. 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'






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






22. Augustan Period






23. 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'






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






32. 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






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






34. 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'






35. A group of four works






36. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






47. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






48. 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






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






50. 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







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