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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues






2. 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.






3. 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'






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






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






6. 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






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






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






9. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






10. 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






11. 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.






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






13. 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'






14. 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






15. A group of four works






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






17. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






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






21. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






22. Romantic Period






23. 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)






24. The rhythmic structure of poetry






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision






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






29. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






30. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






31. 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.






32. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






33. 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'






34. (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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. (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






41. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






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