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






3. (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






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






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






6. 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'






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






8. A rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines - first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit - esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: 'In every work regard the writer's end - Since none can compass more than th






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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






13. 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






14. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






16. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






18. Romantic Period






19. 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)






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. 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






26. 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.






27. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






28. Letters - usually formal






29. Augustan Period






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






36. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






39. A characteristic of art or nature that inspires a feeling of grander and mystery. For example: an ancient ruins - a storm swept landscape - of the fall of Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost.






40. Novel a modernist form that puts a story together by tracing the thoughts and feelings of its characters rather than through the voice of a detached narrator






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






42. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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.






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






47. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






48. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






50. 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.)