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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The rhythmic structure of poetry






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. 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'






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






6. 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.






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






8. 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






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






13. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






14. 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






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






16. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






18. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






20. 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






21. 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'






22. 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.






23. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. A group of four works






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






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. Romantic period;






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






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






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






35. 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






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






37. 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.






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






39. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






40. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






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






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






47. Augustan Period;






48. 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






49. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






50. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism







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