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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






4. 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.






5. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






6. Romantic Period






7. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. 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






14. Letters - usually formal






15. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






16. 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






17. 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.






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






19. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






20. (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






21. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






22. 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.






23. 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






24. 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.)






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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)






30. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






31. Augustan Period;






32. Augustan Period






33. 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'






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






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






36. 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






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






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






39. 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'






40. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






41. A group of four works






42. 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






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






44. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






46. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






48. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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