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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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)






7. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






8. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






9. 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.






10. 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






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. Romantic Period






16. 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






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






18. 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






19. 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






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






21. Romantic period;






22. 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






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






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






25. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






27. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






29. Letters - usually formal






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






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






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






34. 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.)






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






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






37. Augustan Period;






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






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






40. 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.






41. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






42. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






43. 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.






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






45. 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






46. 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'






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






48. 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.






49. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






50. 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







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