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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance






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






4. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






5. A group of four works






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






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






8. 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'






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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.






16. Letters - usually formal






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






18. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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. (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






29. A poem of fixed form - French in origin - consisting usually of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza and having only two rhymes throughout






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. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






34. 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.






35. Romantic period;






36. 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.






37. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






38. 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.






39. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile






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






41. 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.)






42. Augustan Period






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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'






49. 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.






50. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other