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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.






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






3. 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.






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






5. 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






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






7. Letters - usually formal






8. 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.






9. 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






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






11. (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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






18. Augustan Period






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






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






21. 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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






30. 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






31. 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.






32. The rhythmic structure of poetry






33. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






34. Romantic Period






35. 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'






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. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






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






41. 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






42. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






44. 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






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






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






47. Augustan Period;






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






49. 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






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