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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.






2. 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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. 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






9. 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






10. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






11. 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






12. 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.






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. 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'






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






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






24. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






25. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus






26. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






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






30. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






31. Romantic period;






32. 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






33. 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






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






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






36. 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






37. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






39. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






42. 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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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.






47. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






49. (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






50. (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