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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The rhythmic structure of poetry






2. 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






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






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






5. 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'






6. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






7. 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.






8. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






9. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






11. Augustan Period






12. 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.)






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. 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






22. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






28. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






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






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






35. 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'






36. To put or publish. Published novel






37. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






38. 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.






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






40. (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






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






42. 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






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






44. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






45. 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.






46. Romantic Period






47. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






48. 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.






49. 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'






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