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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade






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






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






4. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






6. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






8. 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.






9. The rhythmic structure of poetry






10. 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






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






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






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






14. Augustan Period






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






16. 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






17. 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






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






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






20. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






22. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






24. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






26. 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'






27. 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.






28. Augustan Period;






29. 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






30. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






32. 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






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






34. 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'






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






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






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






38. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






39. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






43. 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






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






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






46. To put or publish. Published novel






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






48. 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.






49. 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






50. 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.)