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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






3. Augustan Period






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






10. 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






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






12. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






14. 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.






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






16. Augustan Period;






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






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






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






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






21. 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






22. 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.)






23. 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.






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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






30. Romantic Period






31. 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'






32. 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






33. 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






34. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






35. 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.






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






37. 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






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






39. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






40. 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.






41. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






42. A group of four works






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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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'






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






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






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






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