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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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.






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






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






4. 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






5. Augustan Period






6. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






9. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






10. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






12. 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






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






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






15. To put or publish. Published novel






16. Letters - usually formal






17. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






18. 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.






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






20. Romantic Period






21. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






23. Romantic period;






24. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






25. 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






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






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






28. 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.






29. (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






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






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






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






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






34. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






35. 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.






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






37. A couplet is a pair of lines of verse. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme - not all do






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






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






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






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






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






44. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






46. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






47. 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






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






49. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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