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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning






2. Letters - usually formal






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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.






7. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. Augustan Period






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






13. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality






14. 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






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






16. (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






17. 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.






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






19. A group of four works






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






21. (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






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






23. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






24. 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






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






26. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






28. 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






29. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






30. 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






31. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. 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






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






37. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






38. 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






39. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






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






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






50. 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