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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Romantic Period






2. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. 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






6. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






7. 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'






8. Letters - usually formal






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






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






11. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






12. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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)






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






17. 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






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






19. To put or publish. Published novel






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






21. 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'






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






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






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






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






26. (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






27. The rhythmic structure of poetry






28. 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.)






29. 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.






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






31. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






33. A group of four works






34. 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






35. 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.






36. 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






37. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology






38. (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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






45. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






47. 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.






48. 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






49. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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