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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. (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






2. 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






3. 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






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






5. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






7. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it






8. 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






9. 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.






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






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






12. 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






13. (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






14. To put or publish. Published novel






15. 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






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






17. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






18. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






23. A group of four works






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. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






28. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






29. 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'






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






41. Augustan Period






42. 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






43. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






45. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






46. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






47. 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.






48. 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'






49. 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






50. 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