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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






3. 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






4. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






6. 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.






7. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc






8. (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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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'






14. Letters - usually formal






15. 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'






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






17. 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






18. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






20. A group of four works






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






22. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Novels about gruesome doings and supernatural horrors - usually set far away and long ago. The form emerged during the eighteenth century but gained popularity and respectability in the nineteenth - as the imagination in literature came to be more hi






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






32. The rhythmic structure of poetry






33. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






34. 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.






35. 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)






36. 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.)






37. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






38. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






39. Augustan Period






40. Romantic period;






41. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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. 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






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






45. 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






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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