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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






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






4. Letters - usually formal






5. 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






6. 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.






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






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






9. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






10. 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






11. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






12. 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






13. Augustan Period;






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






15. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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






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






20. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






21. A group of four works






22. 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






23. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






24. Augustan Period






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






26. 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.






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. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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 long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade






32. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






33. 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






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






35. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






36. To put or publish. Published novel






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






38. 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'






39. (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






40. 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






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






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. Romantic Period






49. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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