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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






4. 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






5. 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.






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






7. 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






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






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






10. Novels about gruesome doings and supernatural horrors - usually set far away and long ago. The form emerged during the eighteenth century but gained popularity and respectability in the nineteenth - as the imagination in literature came to be more hi






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






15. 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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. 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'






19. 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.






20. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






21. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






23. Letters - usually formal






24. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






25. 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'






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






27. 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






28. 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






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






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. 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)






40. 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






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






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






43. Romantic Period






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. 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






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