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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work






2. 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






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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






7. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






8. 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'






9. 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'






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






11. 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.






12. 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






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






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






15. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






18. (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






19. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






20. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






21. The rhythmic structure of poetry






22. 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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






28. 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)






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






33. 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.






34. 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.)






35. Romantic Period






36. To put or publish. Published novel






37. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text






38. 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'






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. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






41. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






42. Augustan Period






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






44. Augustan Period;






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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