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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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






2. A group of four works






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






4. 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.






5. 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






6. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text






7. 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






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






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






10. 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.)






11. 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.






12. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






14. A poem of fixed form - French in origin - consisting usually of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza and having only two rhymes throughout






15. 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






16. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






18. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






20. Augustan Period;






21. 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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






25. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






26. A sentence that changes its grammatical structure in the middle - often suggest disturbance or excitement. For example: 'we had almost reached the finished line and then the race had to have been fixed from the beginning'






27. 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






28. Romantic Period






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






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






31. 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'






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






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






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






35. 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'






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






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






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






39. 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)






40. 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.






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






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






43. Letters - usually formal






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






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






46. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






48. To put or publish. Published novel






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






50. (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