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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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.






2. Augustan Period;






3. 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






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






5. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






6. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






7. 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






8. 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






9. Romantic Period






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






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






12. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






14. 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'






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






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






17. 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'






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






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






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






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






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






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. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






25. 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






26. 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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






35. 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






36. Letters - usually formal






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






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






39. 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






40. 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'






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






42. (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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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.)






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






48. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






49. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






50. 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.