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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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.)






2. The most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat (see blank verse). These lines in iambic pentameter are from The Merchant of Venice - by William Shakespeare:In sooth -/I know/not






3. 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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






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






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. 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






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






14. Letters - usually formal






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






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. 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'






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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






28. 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.






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






30. The rhythmic structure of poetry






31. 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






32. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. 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)






39. 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






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






41. To put or publish. Published novel






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






43. Romantic Period






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






45. 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






46. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






48. (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






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






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