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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision






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






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






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






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






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






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 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.






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






10. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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'






17. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






29. 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.






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






31. Augustan Period






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






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






34. A group of four works






35. Augustan Period;






36. Romantic period;






37. The rhythmic structure of poetry






38. (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






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






40. 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'






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






42. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






44. 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






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






46. 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.






47. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






48. 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






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






50. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other