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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative






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






3. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






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






6. 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.






7. Augustan Period






8. 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.






9. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






10. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade






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






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






13. To put or publish. Published novel






14. Letters - usually formal






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






16. 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






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






18. A group of four works






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






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. 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






22. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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






30. Romantic period;






31. 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






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






33. 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)






34. 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.






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






36. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






38. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






40. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. Romantic Period






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






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






48. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






50. 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.