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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. Augustan Period;






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






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






5. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






6. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






7. 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






8. 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.)






9. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






10. A group of four works






11. 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






12. (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






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






14. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






16. 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.






17. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






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






30. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






31. 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






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






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






34. Romantic period;






35. 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






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






37. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






39. 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






40. 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






41. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






42. To put or publish. Published novel






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






44. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






47. 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






48. Heroic poetry with an important subject of crucial national or cultural significance - together with a grand - lofty tone. Many epics tell the story of the founding of a nation or race by means of battle or journey






49. 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.






50. 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.







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