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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






5. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






6. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






7. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






9. (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






10. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






11. 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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






17. 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.)






18. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






19. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






21. 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






22. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






23. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






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






26. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






27. 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






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






29. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






30. 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.






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






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






33. 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






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






42. To put or publish. Published novel






43. 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.






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






45. Romantic period;






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






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. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






49. One of three sections of the Greek dramatic chorus and the Pindaric ode - along with the strophe and epode. These forms may be repeated in sequence within a single ode.






50. (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