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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. Augustan Period;






3. 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.






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






5. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






12. 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.






13. 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.)






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. (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






19. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






21. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






24. 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'






25. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






26. 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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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






31. 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






32. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






33. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






34. 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'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. 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.






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






49. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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