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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






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






5. (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






6. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






7. 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)






8. A group of four works






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






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






11. 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'






12. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative






13. 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






14. Augustan Period;






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






16. (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






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






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






19. 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






20. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






21. 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.






22. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






26. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






27. The rhythmic structure of poetry






28. 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.






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






30. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






31. 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






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






33. 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'






34. 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'






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






36. 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.






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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.)






46. Romantic period;






47. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






48. 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.






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






50. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative







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