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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






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






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






5. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






6. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






7. 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






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






9. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






11. 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'






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 novel made up of correspondence between characters






14. 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'






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. 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






23. A group of four works






24. Romantic period;






25. To put or publish. Published novel






26. The contrast - as in a play - between what a character thinks the truth is - as revealed in a speech or action - and what an audience or reader knows the truth






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






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






29. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






33. 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.






34. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






37. 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






38. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






39. Augustan Period;






40. 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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






49. (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






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







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