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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Augustan Period






2. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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






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






8. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






9. 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






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






15. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






16. 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






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






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






19. (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






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






21. Romantic period;






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






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






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






25. 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'






26. Romantic Period






27. 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.)






28. 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






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






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






31. The rhythmic structure of poetry






32. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






33. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






35. 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






36. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






38. A group of four works






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






40. 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)






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






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






43. 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






44. Novel a modernist form that puts a story together by tracing the thoughts and feelings of its characters rather than through the voice of a detached narrator






45. 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






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






47. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






48. 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






49. (1670-1790) identified literature as a worthy cultural pursuit capable of reconciling respect for classical learning with the evolving interests and tastes of the educated middle class. Translated - imitated - and elucidated the most respectable anci






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