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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






8. Designating or characteristic of a kind of fiction that originated in Spain and deals episodically with the adventures of a hero who is or resembles such a vagabond or rogue






9. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






10. 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






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






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






13. A group of four works






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






15. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






16. 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)






17. Letters - usually formal






18. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.






19. 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.






20. 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'






21. Augustan Period






22. 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






23. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






24. 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






25. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






26. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






28. 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.






29. 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






30. 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'






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






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. 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.






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






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






38. Is a figure of speech that uses an exaggerated or extravagant statement to create a strong emotional response. As a figure of speech it is not intended to be taken literally. Hyperbole is frequently used for humour. Examples of hyperbole are: They ra






39. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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






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






43. (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






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






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






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






47. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






48. 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.






49. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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