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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Romantic period;






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






3. Augustan Period






4. 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






5. 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.)






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






7. 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.






8. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






9. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






11. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






12. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






14. 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






15. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






16. 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.






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






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






19. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece






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






21. (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






22. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






23. 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.






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






27. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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'






32. 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'






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






40. A group of four works






41. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision






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






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






46. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






48. 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.






49. Letters - usually formal






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