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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House






2. 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.






3. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






4. A group of four works






5. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






7. 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






8. An extended metaphor used in a drama or 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 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)






11. 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






12. 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'






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






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






15. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






17. 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






18. 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.)






19. 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






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






21. Augustan Period






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






23. Letters - usually formal






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






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






26. 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






27. 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'






28. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






29. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






30. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






31. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






32. 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






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






34. Romantic Period






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






36. To put or publish. Published novel






37. 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






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






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






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. 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






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






48. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






49. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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