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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






4. To put or publish. Published novel






5. 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'






6. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






8. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold






9. 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.






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






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






13. A verse form of Italian origin - made up of tercets - the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba - bcb - cdc - etc.)






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






21. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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.






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






30. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






32. Romantic Period






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






34. Augustan Period;






35. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






37. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






38. 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






39. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






40. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






43. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






44. 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.






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






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






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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







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