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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. To put or publish. Published novel






2. 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






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






4. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






6. 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.






7. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






8. 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






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






10. 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.






11. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






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






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






15. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






18. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






20. (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






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






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






23. Augustan Period;






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






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






26. 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.






27. A group of four works






28. 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






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






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






31. 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'






32. Romantic Period






33. 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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. 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)






43. 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.






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






45. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






46. Augustan Period






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






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






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






50. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.