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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Romantic Period






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






3. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






4. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






5. 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.






6. Augustan Period






7. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






8. 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






9. 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.






10. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






13. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. 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






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






23. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






25. A group of four works






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






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






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






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






30. 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)






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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






35. 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.






36. Letters - usually formal






37. 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






38. 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'






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






40. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






43. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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







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