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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.






2. 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.






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






4. 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






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






6. 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.






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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'






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






14. 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.






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. Romantic period;






17. 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






18. (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






19. To put or publish. Published novel






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






21. A group of four works






22. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






23. 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'






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. (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






29. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. Letters - usually formal






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






39. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






40. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






41. 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






42. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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