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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






3. 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.






4. (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






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






6. 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'






7. 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.






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






9. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






10. Is the idealized code of medieval nobility. It stressed honesty and integrity in living up to one's social obligations - courtesy to others - and deference to ladies.






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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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






17. 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






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






19. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






29. 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






30. 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.






31. 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)






32. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






34. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology






35. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






36. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






37. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






45. 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.)






46. 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.






47. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






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