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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. Augustan Period;






3. Augustan Period






4. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values






5. 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.






6. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






7. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






8. Romantic period;






9. 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






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






12. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






21. 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.)






22. Romantic Period






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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






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






27. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






28. 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.






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






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






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






33. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






34. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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






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






41. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.






42. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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.






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







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