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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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.






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






3. Augustan Period;






4. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






5. 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.






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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






11. Romantic period;






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. 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'






22. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






23. 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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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'






31. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






33. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






35. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






36. A group of four works






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






38. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






39. 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






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






41. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






43. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






46. 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






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






48. To put or publish. Published novel






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






50. 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