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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






2. 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






3. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






4. 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






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






6. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.






7. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






8. 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






9. 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






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






11. 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)






12. 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






13. Romantic period;






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






15. (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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. To put or publish. Published novel






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






22. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






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






26. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






32. (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






33. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






35. 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.






36. Romantic Period






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






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






39. Letters - usually formal






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






44. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






45. 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






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






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






48. 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'






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






50. 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.