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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






2. 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.






3. 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






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






5. 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.






6. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Romantic Period






14. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






16. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






17. 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






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






19. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






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






23. 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)






24. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. (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






31. 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






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






33. 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






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. 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






36. A group of four works






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






38. Augustan Period






39. 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.






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






41. (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






42. 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.






43. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






45. Romantic period;






46. 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.






47. 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






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






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






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