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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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'






2. 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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






13. 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'






14. The rhythmic structure of poetry






15. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






16. Romantic period;






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






18. 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.






19. Augustan Period






20. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






21. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






22. 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.)






23. Augustan Period;






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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






29. Romantic Period






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






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






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






33. 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






34. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






43. 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






44. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






47. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






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.






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