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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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






7. 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)






8. 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






9. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






10. 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'






11. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






12. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






13. A sentence that changes its grammatical structure in the middle - often suggest disturbance or excitement. For example: 'we had almost reached the finished line and then the race had to have been fixed from the beginning'






14. 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






15. 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.






16. Augustan Period






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






18. 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






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






20. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






21. 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






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






23. 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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. 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'






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






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. (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






41. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






43. Romantic period;






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






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






46. 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






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






48. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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