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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness






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






3. 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.






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






5. Letters - usually formal






6. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






7. 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






8. 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






9. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






10. (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






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






12. 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






13. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. A couplet is a pair of lines of verse. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme - not all do






19. 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.






20. 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






21. A group of four works






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. Romantic period;






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






28. 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






29. Romantic Period






30. 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.






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






32. 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






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






34. 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






35. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






36. To put or publish. Published novel






37. Augustan Period






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






39. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






42. 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.






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






44. (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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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






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