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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






2. 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






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






4. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






6. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






9. 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.






10. (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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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.






15. A group of four works






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. 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






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






19. 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'






20. 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






21. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






22. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






24. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






25. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






28. 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.






29. To put or publish. Published novel






30. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






31. 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)






32. 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






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






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






35. A poem of fixed form - French in origin - consisting usually of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza and having only two rhymes throughout






36. (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






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






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






39. 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.






40. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






41. 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.






42. Augustan Period






43. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






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






47. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






49. 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






50. 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.







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