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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






3. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






4. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






5. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






6. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






7. A group of four works






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






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






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






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






12. (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






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






14. Romantic period;






15. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






16. 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'






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






18. 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






19. 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.)






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. 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.






35. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






36. 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.






37. 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






38. Letters - usually formal






39. 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






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






41. 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.






42. The rhythmic structure of poetry






43. 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)






44. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






48. 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






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






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