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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. 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






6. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






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






10. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






12. 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)






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






14. 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






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






16. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






17. 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.






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






19. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






21. 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'






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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. (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






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. Is a figure of speech that uses an exaggerated or extravagant statement to create a strong emotional response. As a figure of speech it is not intended to be taken literally. Hyperbole is frequently used for humour. Examples of hyperbole are: They ra






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






34. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






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






41. 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






42. Romantic Period






43. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






45. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






46. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






48. 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.






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






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