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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. 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.






3. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






4. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






6. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






8. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view






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






10. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






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






18. 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'






19. 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






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






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






22. Augustan Period






23. 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)






24. 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.






25. 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'






26. 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






27. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






30. 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






31. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






32. 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.)






33. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






35. 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






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






37. 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.






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






39. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






41. To put or publish. Published novel






42. Romantic period;






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






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






45. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






46. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






48. 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'






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






50. 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







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