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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Augustan Period;






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






3. 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.






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






5. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






6. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






7. 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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. The rhythmic structure of poetry






19. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






21. 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.






22. Romantic Period






23. Augustan Period






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






34. 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.






35. 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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






43. 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.






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






45. To put or publish. Published novel






46. A group of four works






47. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






49. 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)






50. 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