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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. A group of four works






2. 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






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






4. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






5. 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.






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






7. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. 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'






13. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






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






18. (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






19. 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






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. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






23. To put or publish. Published novel






24. 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.






25. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






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






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






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






30. 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'






31. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






32. 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.






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






34. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






38. Augustan Period;






39. 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






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






41. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade






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. Romantic Period






44. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






45. (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






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






47. 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






48. 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






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






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