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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. (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






9. Romantic period;






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






11. 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.)






12. A rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines - first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit - esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: 'In every work regard the writer's end - Since none can compass more than th






13. 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






14. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






15. (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






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






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






18. Romantic Period






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






20. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. 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






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






26. To put or publish. Published novel






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






28. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






30. 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






31. Letters - usually formal






32. Augustan Period;






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






34. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






35. 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'






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






38. Augustan Period






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






40. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






42. 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.






43. 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)






44. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. Designating or characteristic of a kind of fiction that originated in Spain and deals episodically with the adventures of a hero who is or resembles such a vagabond or rogue