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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade






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






3. To put or publish. Published novel






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






10. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






11. Romantic Period






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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






16. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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






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






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






21. (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






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






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






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






26. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






27. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






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






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






30. 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






31. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






32. Augustan Period






33. 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.






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






35. Letters - usually formal






36. Romantic period;






37. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






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






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






42. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






43. A group of four works






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






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






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






47. 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






48. 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






49. 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'






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