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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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.






2. Romantic period;






3. 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.






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






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






6. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






16. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






17. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






18. 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






19. 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.






20. (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






21. 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






22. 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)






23. (1540-1640) public theaters presented plays that celebrated a semifluid social order governed by absolute power. These dramas portrayed any unchecked social mobility that might threaten state stability as the result of personal evil - corruption - an






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






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






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






27. Romantic Period






28. 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.






29. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






30. 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.






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






32. Augustan Period






33. 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.






34. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






35. 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.






36. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






37. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






39. 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'






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






41. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision






42. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






44. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






45. 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






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






47. 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.






48. 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






49. 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.






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