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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. Augustan Period;






4. 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'






5. 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






6. 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






7. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






8. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






10. (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






11. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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






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






20. 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.






21. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






28. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






30. 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.






31. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






32. Augustan Period






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






40. Letters - usually formal






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






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






43. 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'






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






45. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






46. A group of four works






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






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






49. 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.)






50. 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.