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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. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






3. Letters - usually formal






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. Augustan Period;






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






10. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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. 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'






13. (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






14. 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)






15. 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.






16. 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






17. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






18. Romantic period;






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






30. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






32. 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.






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






34. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






37. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology






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






39. (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






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






43. 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






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






45. 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.






46. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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. 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






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