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






3. 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






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






5. 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.






6. A group of four works






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






8. 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.






9. (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






10. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






12. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






13. Romantic Period






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






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






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






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. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






22. 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'






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






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






25. 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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






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 novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






34. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






35. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






36. Heroic poetry with an important subject of crucial national or cultural significance - together with a grand - lofty tone. Many epics tell the story of the founding of a nation or race by means of battle or journey






37. 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






38. 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.)






39. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






40. 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)






41. The rhythmic structure of poetry






42. 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.






43. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






44. (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






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






46. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






48. Letters - usually formal






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






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