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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.






2. 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.






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






4. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






5. 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'






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






7. 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






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






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






10. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






12. 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)






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






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






15. 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






16. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






17. 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'






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






21. 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.






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






23. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






24. 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.






25. 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






26. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






27. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






28. 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'






29. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






30. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company






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






32. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






35. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






36. Augustan Period;






37. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






38. Romantic period;






39. 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






40. 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






41. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






43. 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.)






44. Romantic Period






45. 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.






46. (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






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






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






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






50. 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