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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things






2. Romantic Period






3. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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'






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






15. Romantic period;






16. 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.






17. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died






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






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






20. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






23. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






24. Augustan Period






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






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






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






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






30. 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






31. 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






32. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






33. Augustan Period;






34. (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






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






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






37. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






38. 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.






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






40. Letters - usually formal






41. 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.






42. 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






43. (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






44. 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






45. 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'






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






47. 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.






48. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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







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