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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






5. 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






6. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






8. 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.






9. 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






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






11. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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






22. 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.






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






24. 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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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'






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






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






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






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






34. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






35. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






38. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






40. 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'






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






42. 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.






43. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






45. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






46. 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.)






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






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






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






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







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