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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






3. 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






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






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






6. Romantic period;






7. 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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






13. A group of four works






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






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






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






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






18. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






19. 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






20. 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






21. The rhythmic structure of poetry






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. 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






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






28. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






29. 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






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






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






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






33. Augustan Period






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






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






36. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






37. (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






38. Romantic Period






39. 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'






40. 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.






41. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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






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






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






49. To put or publish. Published novel






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