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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.






2. 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.






3. 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






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






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






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. 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.






9. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






12. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






13. 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.






14. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






15. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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)






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






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






23. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






24. 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'






25. 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'






26. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






28. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






30. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






31. 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.






32. 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'






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






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






35. 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.






36. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






38. 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






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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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.)






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






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






46. Augustan Period;






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






48. 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.






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






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