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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.






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






3. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism






4. (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






5. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






6. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






9. A group of four works






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






11. Augustan Period






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






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






14. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






15. To put or publish. Published novel






16. 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






17. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






18. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






20. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






21. 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'






22. 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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






28. Augustan Period;






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






30. 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'






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






32. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






33. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






34. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






35. 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






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. 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






38. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






39. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






40. 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.






41. 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






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






43. 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






44. Romantic Period






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






46. 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.






47. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






50. 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.