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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.






2. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






3. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died






4. 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






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






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






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






8. (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






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






10. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






11. 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.)






12. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






19. 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.






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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






26. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word






27. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






28. 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






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






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






31. Augustan Period;






32. 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






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






34. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






38. 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






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






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






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 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






43. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






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






47. 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'






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






49. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






50. Augustan Period