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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






2. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






5. 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'






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






7. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






15. 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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. 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.






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






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






25. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






26. 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'






27. 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.






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






29. 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






30. 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






31. Letters - usually formal






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






33. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






40. To put or publish. Published novel






41. Augustan Period;






42. 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






43. Augustan Period






44. 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.)






45. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






48. 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'






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






50. 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.