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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. 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






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






4. 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'






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






6. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






8. 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






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






10. Romantic period;






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






12. (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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. 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






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






20. 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






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






22. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






26. 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






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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






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






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






33. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






35. 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.






36. (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






37. 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)






38. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






39. 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






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






41. To put or publish. Published novel






42. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






43. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






50. Augustan Period