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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






3. 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.






4. 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






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






6. 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.






7. Augustan Period;






8. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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






15. 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.






16. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade






17. 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






18. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






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






22. 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






23. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






24. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






26. 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.






27. 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'






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






29. 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'






30. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






31. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






32. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






34. 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.)






35. 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.






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






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






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






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. (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






42. 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






43. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






49. 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)






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