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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






4. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






5. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






6. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






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






9. 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






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






11. Augustan Period;






12. 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'






13. A group of four works






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






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






16. 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






17. 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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






28. 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






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






30. 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)






31. To put or publish. Published novel






32. 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.






33. Letters - usually formal






34. 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'






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






36. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






39. 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.






40. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






41. 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






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






43. 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






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






45. A literary - usually verse composition in which a speaker reveals his or her character - often in relation to a critical situation or event - in a monologue addressed to the reader or to a presumed listener.






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






47. Romantic period;






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






49. Romantic Period






50. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds