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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold






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






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






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. (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






14. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






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. 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






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. Augustan Period;






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






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






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






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






28. 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'






29. 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.






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






31. 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.)






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






38. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






39. 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.






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






41. Letters - usually formal






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






43. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






44. 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)






45. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






46. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






47. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






48. 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.






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






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