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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






3. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






4. To put or publish. Published novel






5. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






6. 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






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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.)






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






19. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






23. (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






24. 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






25. 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'






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






36. 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.






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






38. Romantic Period






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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






43. Heroic poetry with an important subject of crucial national or cultural significance - together with a grand - lofty tone. Many epics tell the story of the founding of a nation or race by means of battle or journey






44. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






45. Romantic period;






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






47. Augustan Period;






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






49. 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






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