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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. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






3. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






12. 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.)






13. 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






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. 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






16. 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.






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






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






19. (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






20. 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






21. 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.






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






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






24. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.






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






26. 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.






27. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






30. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






31. Augustan Period






32. The rhythmic structure of poetry






33. 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.






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. Augustan Period;






36. (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






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






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






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






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






41. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






42. 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






43. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






45. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






46. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






49. Poetry that has no fixed meter - although it has rhythmic lines and line breaks and is therefore presumably composed with rhythmic qualities in mind. It came into vogue during the modern period.






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