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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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.






2. 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






3. Romantic Period






4. 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)






5. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. (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






12. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






13. 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.






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






15. 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'






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






28. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






35. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






36. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






37. 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






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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






42. 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






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






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






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






46. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






50. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.