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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






3. 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.






4. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






5. 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






6. 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






7. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






8. 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






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






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






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






12. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






13. Letters - usually formal






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






15. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






16. 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






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






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






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






20. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






21. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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






25. A group of four works






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






33. Romantic period;






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






35. 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)






36. 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.






37. 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






38. A collection of works on a common theme such as Charlemagne or the Trojan War. Cycles typically represent the work of several different authors brought together into a group. Cycles are often groups of romance narrative.






39. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






45. Augustan Period;






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






47. 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






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. 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'






50. 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







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