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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Augustan Period






2. 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






3. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






4. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






7. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






8. 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






9. Romantic period;






10. 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'






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






12. 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






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






14. 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.)






15. 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






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






17. 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'






18. 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






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






20. 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.






21. 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'






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






23. 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






24. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






25. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






26. 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.






27. The contrast - as in a play - between what a character thinks the truth is - as revealed in a speech or action - and what an audience or reader knows the truth






28. A group of four works






29. 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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. Letters - usually formal






35. Romantic Period






36. 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.






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






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






39. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






45. 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






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






47. To put or publish. Published novel






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






49. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






50. 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.