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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






3. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






4. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






5. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






6. 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.






7. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






8. 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)






9. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






11. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






20. Romantic Period






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






24. 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






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






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






27. (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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






33. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






34. A group of four works






35. 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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






41. 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






42. 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.






43. 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'






44. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






45. Augustan Period






46. Augustan Period;






47. 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






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






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






50. 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