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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






3. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






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






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






12. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






13. (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






14. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






15. 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)






16. 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'






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. The rhythmic structure of poetry






24. (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






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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






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






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






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






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






33. A group of four works






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. To put or publish. Published novel






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






38. Letters - usually formal






39. 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.






40. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things






41. 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'






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Augustan Period






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. 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