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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






2. A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common Ex: Her home was a prison.






3. 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






4. 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






5. A group of four works






6. 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.






7. 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'






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






9. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






10. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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 pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






14. 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






15. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






17. 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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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






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






26. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






27. 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






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






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






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. 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






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






33. Romantic Period






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






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






36. (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






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






38. Romantic period;






39. (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






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






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






42. 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.






43. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






44. 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.






45. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






47. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






48. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






49. Augustan Period






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