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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






2. 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.






3. Romantic Period






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






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






6. (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






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






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






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






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






11. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






12. 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'






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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'






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






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






19. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






20. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






23. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






26. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






27. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






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






33. (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






34. 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






35. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. To put or publish. Published novel






44. 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'






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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






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






49. 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






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