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






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






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






6. 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.






7. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness






8. 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)






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






10. 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.






11. Romantic period;






12. 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






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






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






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






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






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






18. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






20. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






30. 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






31. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






32. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






34. (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






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






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






37. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






38. 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.






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






40. 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.)






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






42. Romantic Period






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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






50. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other