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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.






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






3. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






4. 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






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






6. 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.






7. 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'






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






9. 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






10. Augustan Period






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






12. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






13. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






14. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






15. 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'






16. 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






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






18. 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.






19. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






20. 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






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






22. 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






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






24. Augustan Period;






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






26. (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






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. 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






33. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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.)






40. 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






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






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 novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






44. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






46. To put or publish. Published novel






47. 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.






48. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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