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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






3. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






4. 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.






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






6. 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






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






8. 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.






9. 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)






10. 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






11. 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






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






13. Romantic period;






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. To put or publish. Published novel






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






20. 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






21. A verse form of Italian origin - made up of tercets - the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba - bcb - cdc - etc.)






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






23. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






24. 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'






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 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






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






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






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






30. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






31. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






32. 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






33. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






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. (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






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






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






39. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






40. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work






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






42. 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.






43. Augustan Period






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






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






46. (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






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. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






49. The rhythmic structure of poetry






50. Romantic Period