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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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'






2. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






3. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






5. (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






6. 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






7. 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.






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






9. (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






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






11. 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.






12. Augustan Period;






13. 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






14. 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.






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






16. 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






17. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






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






33. To put or publish. Published novel






34. 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.






35. 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.)






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






46. A group of four works






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






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






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






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







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