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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Augustan Period






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






3. 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.






4. (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






5. The contrast - as in a play - between what a character thinks the truth is - as revealed in a speech or action - and what an audience or reader knows the truth






6. 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'






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






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






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






10. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






11. 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






12. 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






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






14. 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.






15. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






16. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






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






32. 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'






33. 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






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






35. 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'






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






38. Romantic Period






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






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






41. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






42. Romantic period;






43. (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






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






45. 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






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






47. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






48. Letters - usually formal






49. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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