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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Romantic Period






2. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. 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'






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






10. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






12. 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)






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






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






15. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






16. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






27. A group of four works






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






34. 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.






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






36. 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






37. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






38. 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






39. Romantic period;






40. 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.






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






42. 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






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






48. 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'






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






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