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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






9. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile






10. Augustan Period






11. 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






12. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






15. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






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






19. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. 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






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






25. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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






30. 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.






31. Romantic Period






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






33. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






35. 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'






36. 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)






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






38. 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






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. Letters - usually formal






41. 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






42. 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.






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






44. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






47. 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.






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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.