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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






2. 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.






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






4. Letters - usually formal






5. 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






6. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song






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






8. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






18. A group of four works






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






20. 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'






21. 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






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






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






24. (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






25. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






26. 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.)






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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)






31. Augustan Period;






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






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






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






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






36. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






39. Romantic Period






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






45. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






47. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






48. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






49. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word






50. (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