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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






3. Augustan Period






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






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






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






7. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






8. 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.






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






10. (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






11. 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






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. 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.






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






15. 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






16. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






17. 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






18. 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






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. 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






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






25. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






28. 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






29. 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'






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






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






32. 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






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






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






35. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






37. 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.






38. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






39. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






43. 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






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






45. 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'






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






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






48. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.






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






50. Romantic Period







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