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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama






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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






8. 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.






9. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






12. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. Letters - usually formal






19. Romantic Period






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






21. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






22. Augustan Period






23. 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.






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






25. 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






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






27. 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'






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






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






30. 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






31. 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.






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






33. (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






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






35. 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






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






38. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






39. (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






40. 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






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






42. 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






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






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






45. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






47. 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






48. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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