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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus






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






3. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






5. Letters - usually formal






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






7. 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.






8. Romantic Period






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






10. 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






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






12. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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. 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.






16. 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






17. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






19. 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






20. To put or publish. Published novel






21. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






22. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






23. 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.






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






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. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






27. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






30. (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






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






32. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






33. Augustan Period;






34. 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






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






36. One of three sections of the Greek dramatic chorus and the Pindaric ode - along with the strophe and antistrophe. These forms may be repeated in sequence within a single ode.






37. 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.)






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






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






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






41. The rhythmic structure of poetry






42. A group of four works






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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