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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






2. 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






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






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






5. 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'






6. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






8. Romantic period;






9. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






10. 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






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






12. 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






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






14. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.






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






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






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






18. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






19. 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






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






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






22. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






24. 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






25. Augustan Period






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






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






32. 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'






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






34. 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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






39. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






42. 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)






43. A group of four works






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






45. Augustan Period;






46. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






47. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






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