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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






2. 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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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






15. (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






16. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. Romantic Period






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






25. 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'






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






27. 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






28. 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






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






30. 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






31. 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.






32. A group of four works






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






34. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






35. The rhythmic structure of poetry






36. 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)






37. 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.






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






39. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






40. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






41. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






43. Romantic period;






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






45. (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






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






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






48. 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






49. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






50. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other