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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view






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






3. 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'






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






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






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






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






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






9. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






10. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






11. (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






12. A method of humorous or subtly sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their usual sense: the irony of calling a stupid plan 'clever'






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






14. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House






15. 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)






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






17. 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.






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






19. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






20. 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.






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






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






23. A group of four works






24. Augustan Period






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






26. 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






27. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






28. 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.






29. 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.)






30. 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






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






32. (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






33. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






35. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






36. 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.






37. 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






38. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






40. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






41. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






46. Augustan Period;






47. 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.






48. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






49. Romantic Period






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